Katherine Ewing and Alexander Stille.
IRCPL’s “Life History in Northwest Africa” project is interdisciplinary and draws upon oral history, anthropology and ethnography, religious studies, and journalism. IRCPL researchers collected extended, in-depth, and fine-grained life history narratives over the course of numerous conversations and interviews in Senegal, Mauritania, and Morocco. In doing so, they focus on how individuals live and experience the movements of history and the forms of socio-religious change that help to frame and give meaning to this experience. Crossing traditional regional boundaries between the Maghreb and West Africa, the project prioritizes ordinary people in the “northwest” region to think about the ways in which personal narratives allow for a different, critical reflection upon history, socio-religious change, and contemporary politics.
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