The Greater Maghreb

Explanation

The Greater Maghreb is invoked as a field marked by a lack of deep anthropological and historical writing. Its importance lies in the fact that, for Arkoun, it is linked to childhood experience and to the discovery of the difference between oral culture and written classical culture.

Mentioned in

• The anthropological history of the Greater Maghreb has not been written
• Arkoun’s intellectual trajectory was shaped by anti-colonial critique and the Algerian experience
• Childhood experiences reveal the cultural difference
• Arkoun’s intellectual impetus