The architecture of memory
Subtitle: a Jewish-Muslim household in colonial Algeria, 1937-1962
By: Joëlle Bahloul ; translated from the French by Catherine du Peloux Ménagé.
Series: Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 158
Subjects: Jews -- Algeria -- Sétif -- Social life and customs.; Dwellings -- Algeria -- Sétif.; Sétif (Algeria) -- Ethnic relations.
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-154) and index.