| Description |
1 online resource (282 pages) |
| Series |
Blackwell Studies in Discourse and Culture |
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Blackwell studies in discourse and culture.
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| Contents |
We Share Walls; Contents; List of Figures, Tables and Transcripts; Series Preface; Copyright 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:Objecti . cation, Order, Displacement; Part IV Antiphony:Periphery; 6 Transformation in the Sous Valley; 7 Ishelhin into Arabs?Ethnolinguistic Differentiating Practices in the Periphery |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-256) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Berbers -- Morocco -- Social life and customs
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Berbers -- Morocco -- Social conditions
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Women -- Morocco
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Acculturation -- Morocco
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Acculturation.
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Berbers -- Social life and customs.
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Ethnic relations.
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Women.
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| SUBJECT |
Morocco -- Ethnic relations
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| Subject |
Morocco.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780470693339 |
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0470693339 |
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128130848X |
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9781281308481 |
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