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

Name: We Share Walls Language, Land, and Gender in Berber Morocco
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ISBN: 9781405154215

ISBN-10: 1405154217

ISBN-13: 9781405154215

Edition: 2008

Authors: Katherine E. Hoffman

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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 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

Book details

List price: $47.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/29/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.80" wide x 9.70" long x 0.62" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



List of Figures, Tables and Transcripts


Series Preface


Copyright Acknowledgments


Note on Transcription and Transliteration



Prelude



Introduction: Staying Put



On Fieldwork Methods and Movements: "Song Is Good Speech"



Dissonance: Gender



The Gender of Authenticity



Consonance: Homeland



Building the Homeland: Labor, Roads, Emigration



Voicing the Homeland: Objectification, Order, Displacement



Antiphony: Periphery



Transformation in the Sous Valley



Ishelhin into Arabs? Ethnolinguistic Differentiating Practices in the Periphery



Resonance



Mediating the Countryside: Purists and Pundits on Tashelhit Radio



Conclusion


Notes


References


Index