The lost archive
Introduction: inventing indigeneity
Anthropology and the ghost of the colonial past
Jews northern and southern: the French annexation of the Mzab and the boundaries of colonial law
Governing typologies: from the conquest of the Mzab to the Touggourt/Dreyfus affair
Contested access: conscription, public health, and education from the fin de siècle through the interwar period
Saharan battlegrounds: from the Vichy regime to a postwar world
Oil, the Algerian war of independence, and competing stories of departure
Conclusion: colonial shadows
Epilogue: dark matter.