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.
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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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- Explorations in the Ethnography of Speaking (Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language) by Richard Bauman in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Remembrance of Things Past Volumes 1-3 Box Set by Marcel Proust in Front Matter, and page 32
- Muslim Society (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology) by Ernest Gellner in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Critical Essays by Roland Barthes in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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- The Anthropology of Space and Place: Locating Culture (Blackwell Readers in Anthropology) by Setha M. Low in Front Matter
- After Kinship (New Departures in Anthropology) by Janet Carsten in Back Matter
- History in Exile: Memory and Identity at the Borders of the Balkans by Pamela Ballinger in Back Matter
- The Flying Camel: Essays on Identity by Women of North African and Middle Eastern Jewish Heritage (Live Girls) by Loolwa Khazzoom in Back Matter
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