The Architecture of Memory: A Jewish-Muslim Household in Colonial Algeria, 1937 1962 (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology)

Joelle Bahloul
Cambridge University Press, 1/12/2008
EAN 9780521568920, ISBN10: 0521568927

Paperback, 176 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.1 cm
Language: English

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.

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.