We Share Walls – Language, Land and Gender in Berber Morocco

Katherine E. Hoffman (Autor)

Software / Digital Media

280 Seiten

2008
Wiley-Blackwell (Hersteller)
978-0-470-69414-5 (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

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. Series Preface. Acknowledgments. Note on Transcription and Transliteration. Part I: Prelude:. 1. Introduction: Staying Put. 2. On Fieldwork Methods and Movements: 'Song is Good Speech'. Part II: Dissonance: Gender:. 3. The Gender of Authenticity. Part III: Consonance: Homeland:. 4. Building the Homeland: Labor, Roads, Emigration. 5. Voicing the Homeland: Objectification, Order, Displacement. Part IV: Antiphony: Periphery:. 6. Transformation in the Sous Valley. 7. Ishelhin into Arabs? Ethnolinguistic Differentiating Practices in the Periphery. Part V: Resonance:. 8. Mediating the Countryside: Purists and Pundits on Tashelhit Radio. 9. Conclusion. Notes. References. Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.3.2008
• Verlagsort: Hoboken
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 183 x 258 mm
• Gewicht: 668 g
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• ISBN-10: 0-470-69414-9 / 0470694149
• ISBN-13: 978-0-470-69414-5 / 9780470694145
• Zustand: Neuware