Berber culture on the world stage [[electronic resource] ] : from village to video / / Jane E. Goodman

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910784579403321
• Autore: Goodman Jane E. <1956->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2005
• ISBN: 9786612072482; 1-282-07248-X; 0-253-11145-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (257 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.89/33065
• Soggetti: Berbers - Algeria; Algerians - France - History; Music - Performance - Algeria; Algeria Ethnic relations
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-232) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Circuits -- The Berber Spring -- Refracting Berber identities -- The mythical village -- Texts -- Collecting poems -- Authoring modernity -- Copyright matters -- Performances -- Staging gender -- Village to video.
• Sommario/riassunto: ""[S]ure to interest a number of different audiences, from language and music scholars to specialists on North Africa.... a superb book, clearly written, analytically incisive, about very important issues that have not been described elsewhere."" -- John Bowen, Washington UniversityIn this nuanced study of the performance of cultural identity, Jane E. Goodman travels from contemporary Kabyle Berber communities in Algeria and France to the colonial archives, identifying the products, performances