Encountering Morocco Fieldwork and Cultural Understanding

Name: Encountering Morocco Fieldwork and Cultural Understanding
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ISBN: 9780253009111

ISBN-10: 0253009111

ISBN-13: 9780253009111

Edition: 2013

Authors: David Crawford, Rachel Newcomb, Kevin Dwyer, David McMurray, Katherine E. Hoffman

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Encountering Morocco 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. Moving reflections on friendship, kinship, and belief within the cross-cultural encounter reveal why study of Moroccan society has played such a…

Book details

Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 5/15/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.73" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English

Kevin Dwyer is Professor of Anthropology at the American University in Cairo. He is author of Moroccan Dialogues: Anthropology in Question and Arab Voices: The Human Rights Debate in the Middle East. He lives in Cairo.



Acknowledgments


Introduction




Arabic or French? The Politics of Parole at a Psychiatric Hospital in Morocco




Time, Children, and Getting Ethnography Done in Southern Morocco




Thinking about Class and Status in Morocco




Forgive Me, Friend: Mohammed and Ibrahim




Suspicion, Secrecy, and Uncomfortable Negotiations over Knowledge Production in Southwestern Morocco




The Activist and the Anthropologist




A Distant Episode: Religion and Belief in Moroccan Ethnography




Shortcomings of a Reflexive Tool Kit; or, Memoir of an Undutiful Daughter




Reflecting on Moroccan Encounters: Meditations on Home, Genre, and the Performance of Everyday Life




The Power of Babies




Afterword: Anthropologists among Moroccans



References


Contributors


Index