We Share Walls (eBook)

Language, Land, and Gender in Berber Morocco

Katherine E. Hoffman (Autor)

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2008
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-0-470-69333-9 (ISBN)

Infos

We Share Walls: Language, Land, and Gender in Berber Morocco explores how political economic shifts over the last century have reshaped the language practices and ideologies of women (and men) in the plains and mountains of rural Morocco. Offers a unique and richly textured ethnography of language maintenance and shift as well as language and place-making among an overlooked Muslim group Examines how Moroccan Berbers use language to integrate into the Arab-speaking world and retain their own distinct identity Illuminates the intriguing semiotic and gender issues embedded in the culture Part of the Blackwell Studies in Discourse and Culture Series

Autor

Katherine E. Hoffman is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Northwestern University. Her focus is on linguistic and sociocultural anthropology, ethnicity, indigenous people, and endangered languages. She has published articles in a range of journals, including American Ethnologist, Ethnomusicology, and the Journal of North African Studies.

Inhalt

List of Figures, Tables and Transcripts viii

Series Preface xi

Copyright Acknowledgments xiii

Note on Transcription and Transliteration xvii

Part I Prelude 1

1 Introduction: Staying Put 3

2 On Fieldwork Methods and Movements: "Song Is Good Speech" 31

Part II Dissonance: Gender 47

3 The Gender of Authenticity 49

Part III Consonance: Homeland 81

4 Building the Homeland: Labor, Roads, Emigration 83

5 Voicing the Homeland: Objectification, Order, Displacement 110

Part IV Antiphony: Periphery 145

6 Transformation in the Sous Valley 147

7 Ishelhin into Arabs? Ethnolinguistic Differentiating Practices in the Periphery 164

Part V Resonance 193

8 Mediating the Countryside: Purists and Pundits on Tashelhit Radio 195

9 Conclusion 228

Notes 237

References 245

Index 257

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.5.2008
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Studies in Discourse and Culture
• Reihe/Serie: Wiley Blackwell Studies in Discourse and Culture
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Anthropologie • Anthropology • Arab • Berber • Code • Contrast • economic • Emigration • entrenched • Explores • favors • Frameworks • immortalize • Knowledge • Land • language • last century • Linguistic Anthropology • Linguistische Anthropologie • marginalize • Moral • Morocco • Narratives • Political • Practices • rugged • Rural • Social & Cultural Anthropology • Soziale u. kulturelle Anthropologie • Tashelhit • Women
• ISBN-10: 0-470-69333-9 / 0470693339
• ISBN-13: 978-0-470-69333-9 / 9780470693339