Hoffman We Share Walls

Language, Land, and Gender in Berber Morocco
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-69333-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 280 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Wiley Blackwell Studies in Discourse and Culture

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hoffman, Katherine E.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.