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Title Encountering Morocco : fieldwork and cultural understanding / edited by David Crawford and Rachel Newcomb ; afterword by Kevin Dwyer
Published Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2013]

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 284 pages) : illustrations
Series Public cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
Public cultures of the Middle East and North Africa.
Contents Introduction / David Crawford and Rachel Newcomb -- Arabic or French? : The politics of Parole at a psychiatric hospital in Morocco / Charlotte E. van den Hout -- Time, children, and getting ethnography done in southern Morocco / Karen Rignall -- Thinking about class and status in Morocco / David A. McMurray -- Forgive me, friend : Mohammed and Ibrahim / Emilio Spadola -- Suspicion, secrecy, and uncomfortable negotiations over knowledge production in southwestern Morocco / Katherine E. Hoffman -- The activist and the anthropologist / Paul A. Silverstein -- A distant episode : Religion and belief in Moroccan ethnography / Rachel Newcomb -- Shortcomings of a reflexive tool kit : or, Memoir of an undutiful daughter / Jamila Bargach -- Reflecting on Moroccan encounters : Meditations on home, genre, and the performance of everyday life / Deborah Kapchan -- The power of babies / David Crawford -- Afterword : Anthropologists among Moroccans / Kevin Dwyer
Summary This book introduces readers to life in this North African country through vivid accounts of fieldwork as personal experience and intellectual journey. We meet the contributors at diverse stages of their careers - from the unmarried researcher arriving for her first stint in the field to the seasoned fieldworker returning with spouse and children. They offer frank descriptions of what it means to take up residence in a place where one is regarded as an outsider, learn the language and local customs, and struggle to develop rapport
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-268) and index
Notes English
Online resource; title from e-book title screen (JSTOR platform, viewed March 4, 2016)
Subject Anthropology -- Fieldwork -- Morocco
Anthropologists -- Morocco
Intercultural communication -- Morocco
73.04 teaching, profession and organizations of ethnology.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Research.
Anthropologists
Anthropology -- Fieldwork
Intercultural communication
Manners and customs
73.04 teaching, profession and organizations of ethnology.
SUBJECT Morocco -- Social life and customs
Subject Morocco
Morocco.
Form Electronic book
Author Crawford, David, 1965- editor.
Newcomb, Rachel, 1974- editor.
Dwyer, Kevin, 1941- writer of afterword.
LC no. 2012047778
ISBN 9780253009197
0253009197
1299535208
9781299535206