We Share Walls

Language, Land, and Gender in Berber Morocco

Katherine E. Hoffman (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

288 Seiten

2007
Wiley-Blackwell (Verlag)
978-1-4051-5420-8 (ISBN)

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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

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.

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: Objectifi cation, 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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	12.12.2007
Reihe/Serie	Wiley Blackwell Studies in Discourse and Culture
Verlagsort	Hoboken
Sprache	englisch
Maße	182 x 255 mm
Gewicht	671 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4051-5420-9 / 1405154209
ISBN-13	978-1-4051-5420-8 / 9781405154208
Zustand	Neuware