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

by Joelle Bahloul

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521418911
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	07/28/1996
Series:	Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology , #99
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.59(d)

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.

Editorial Reviews

"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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