1. Edward Said, Orientalism (London: Penguin, 1987).
2. See Pierre Villar, A History of Gold and Money: 1450–1920 (London: New Left Books, 1976)
3. Stanley Diamond, In Search of the Primitive, (New Brunswick: Transaction Books, 1974).
4. See Alain Grosrichard, La fiction du despotisme asiatique dans l’Occident classique (Paris: Seuil, 1979).
5. However it is important to underline the peculiar aspect of the French Orientalist interest in Algeria which appears, in comparison with the Orientalist treatment of the Middle Eastern countries, as less glamorous and more derogative; one reason for this is the nature of the initial encounter between the indigenous population and the invaders, which was brutal and led to a heavy, enduring and dehumanising colonial presence of European settlers on the Algerian soil. But it remains the case that the referent to women pervades this particular instance of Orientalist tradition in an equally vivid and compulsive way. For an analytical survey of the French Orientalist experience in relation to the Maghreb, see some special articles devoted to the subject: ‘Algérie, vingt ans, que savons-nous vraiment de cette terre, de ses révolutions aujourd’hui?’ in Autrement, no. 38 (March 1982); and more particularly, another analysis by Jean Robert Henry, ‘La France au miroir de l’Algérie’. The classic Orientalist and anthropological French research on Algeria remains. Philippe Lucas and Jean-Claude Vatin, L’Algérie des anthropologues (Paris: François Maspéro, 1975).