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  • The Architecture of Memory: A Jewish-Muslim Household in Colonial Algeria, 1937-1962

    The Architecture of Memory by Bahloul, Joelle;

    A Jewish-Muslim Household in Colonial Algeria, 1937-1962

    Series: Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology; 99;

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    Product details:

    • Publisher Cambridge University Press
    • Date of Publication 28 July 1996

    • ISBN 9780521418911
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages176 pages
    • Size 235x156x15 mm
    • Weight 372 g
    • Language English
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    Short description:

    Recalling life in a single house occupied by several Jewish and Muslim families, in the generation before Algerian independence, this is a micro-history of a period which came to an end in the early 1960s.

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    Long description:

    Recalling how they lived in a single house that was occupied by several Jewish and Muslim families, in the generation before Algerian independence, Joelle Bahloul's informants build up a multivocal micro-history of a way of life which came to an end in the early 1960s. Uprooted and dispersed, these former neighbours constantly refer back to the architecture of the house itself, which, with its internal boundaries and shared spaces, structures their memories. Here, in miniature, is a domestic history of North African Muslims, Jews, and Christians living under French colonial rule.

    "This well-written and accessible translation is a required addition to the libraries of students of culture and memory, the ethnography of Jewish life, North Africa, and the identity of immigrants in their adopted countries." Gut Heskell, Religious Studies Review

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    Table of Contents:

    Introduction; l. Foundations; 2. Telling places: the house as social architecture; 3. Telling people: the house and the world; 4. Domestic time; 5. The poetics of remembrance.

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