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100 1 0 _aA. Selby, Jennifer
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245 0 0 _aThe “bled en banlieue”.
260 _c2017.
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520 _aDrawing on ethnographic data with Muslims of Algerian origin who live in a northwestern Parisian suburb, this paper examines marriage preferences for partners and celebrations related to the Bled, or Algerian “home country.” These arrangements are notable given the state’s recent legislation to combat a putative rise in forced and fake marriages, presumably with undesired foreign nationals. While on the surface my interlocutors’ transnational “traditional” marriage patterns might be interpreted as a reaction to the mores of secular France, I aim to show how an imagined Algeria is a repository of a more complex range of sociocultural, political, kinship, sexual and religiously infused ideals. I argue that marriage partners and celebrations that invoke the Bled can be understood as an embodied reclaiming of scrutinized sociocultural values.
690 _aParisian banlieue
690 _aBled
690 _aMarriage
690 _aAlgeria
690 _aMuslim French
786 0 _nEthnologie française | 47 | 4 | 2017-10-20 | p. 703-716 | 0046-2616
856 4 1 _uhttps://shs.cairn.info/journal-ethnologie-francaise-2017-4-page-703?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
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