LC control no. | n 83069555 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
LC classification | PQ3989.M29 |
Personal name heading | Mammeri, Mouloud, 1917-1989 |
Variant(s) | Mammeri, M. (Mouloud), 1917-1989 |
Associated country | Algeria |
Birth date | 19171228 |
Death date | 1989 |
Place of birth | Taourirt-Mimoun (Algeria) |
Place of death | Algeria |
Affiliation | Lycée Louis-le-Grand (Paris, France) École normale supérieure (Cachan, France) Université d'Alger Musée du Bardo (Algiers, Algeria) Centre d'études et de recherches Amazigh (France) |
Profession or occupation | Essayists Ethnologists Novelists College teachers |
Found in | His La colline oubliée, 1952. Litterature orale, 1982: t.p. (M. Mammeri) p. vii (Mouloud Mammeri) Escales, 1992: t.p. (Mouloud Mammeri) p. 4 cover (1917-1989) Dictionary of African Biography, accessed February 27, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Mammeri, Mouloud; fiction writer, essayist, ethnologist, professor; born 28 December 1917 in Taourirt-Mimoun, Algeria; went to Paris to continue his studies at the Lycée Louis le Grand in order to prepare for entrance to the École Normale Supérieure (1937); had a dual career as a teacher and a writer; was a professor in the sociology department at the University of Algiers and then director of the Centre de recherches anthropologiques préhistoriques and ethnographiques (CRAPE) at the Bardo Museum in Algiers; chose to become the scribe and interpreter of the oral tradition of his native Kabylia; founded the Center of Amazigh Studies and Research (CERAM) (1982); received an honorary doctorate from the Sorbonne in Paris (1988); the department of Amazigh language and culture was created at the University of Tizi-Ouzou and renamed Mouloud Mammeri University (1991); died 1989 near Algiers, Algeria) |