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

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Part of Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology

Author: Joelle Bahloul, Indiana University

Date Published: July 1996
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isbn: 9780521568920

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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 multi-voice microhistory of a way of life that came to an end in the early l960s. Uprooted and dispersed, these former neighbors constantly refer back to the architecture of the home 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.
- An ethnography which focuses on the study of collective memory, an important and fashionable area in the field of anthropology now
- Oral history of an Algerian household which throws light on history and society of the period and examines ethnic relations
- A readable, accessible account which will have appeal across disciplines of anthropology, Jewish studies, Middle East and African studies
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"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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Product details
- Date Published: July 1996
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521568920
- length: 176 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 17 mm
- weight: 0.37kg
- availability: Available
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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Joelle Bahloul, Indiana University