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Upper-division undergraduates and above. - Choice The fascinating figure of the Kahina is explored to wonderful effect in this study, her role in the colonial history of North Africa finally having been given the original consideration it so richly deserves. - Lawrence Rosen, Professor and Chair, Anthropology, Princeton University Hannoum's work is one of the most original I have seen having to do with North African cultural history...The interweaving of myth, colonial history, postcolonial history and sociological analysis seems to me masterful...The play of Berber, Jewish, and Arab identities, male and female, historical and mythological, is not only become again matter of current political and scholarly interest, but the demonstration of the manner in which those identities are formed and expressed, the play of literary and cultural genres through which they are actuated, is an important contribution to social analysis, and not only in North Africa. - Professor Clifford Geertz, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University

Hannoum's work is one of the most original I have seen having to do with North African cultural history...The interweaving of myth, colonial history, postcolonial history and sociological analysis seems to me masterful...The play of Berber, Jewish, and Arab identities, male and female, historical and mythological, is not only become again matter of current political and scholarly interest, but the demonstration of the manner in which those identities are formed and expressed, the play of literary and cultural genres through which they are actuated, is an important contribution to social analysis, and not only in North Africa. -Professor Clifford Geertz, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University

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Abdelmajid Hannoumis Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Simon's Rock College of Bard. He has taught in the Department of Anthropology at the New School for Social Research in New York City.

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