The architecture of memory
a Jewish-Muslim household in colonial Algeria, 1937-1962
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Author
Publication
1996 - Cambridge University Press, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
39,500 words, Guess
Page Count
158 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL984892M
- ISBN-100521418917
- OCLC Control Number34705121
- OCLC Control Numberarchitectureofme0000bahl
- Library of Congress Control Number96022668
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- Goodreads4282274
- LibraryThing249415
Classifications
- DDC965/.5
- LCCDS135.A3 B3513 1996
Description
Recalling the way they lived in a single Algerian house that was occupied by several families, Jewish and Muslim, in the generation before the independence of Algeria, 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 now dispersed, these former neighbours constantly refer 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.
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Series Statement
- Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology
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