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Record Nr.

UNISA996199118003316

Autore

Hoffman Katherine E

Titolo

We share walls [[electronic resource] ] : language, land, and gender in Berber Morocco / / Katherine E. Hoffman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2008

ISBN

1-281-30848-X

9786611308483

0-470-69414-9

0-470-69333-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (282 p.)

Collana

Blackwell studies in discourse and culture ; ; 2

Disciplina

305.89/33064

Soggetti

Berbers - Morocco - Social life and customs

Berbers - Morocco - Social conditions

Women - Morocco

Acculturation - Morocco

Morocco 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. [245]-256) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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