Muslim custodians of Jewish spaces in Morocco : drinking the milk of trust / Cory Thomas Pechan Driver.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Driver, Cory Thomas Pechan, author.

Series:

Contemporary anthropology of religion

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish cemeteries--Morocco.

Jewish cemeteries.

Jews--Morocco.

Jews.

Muslims.

Morocco.

Muslims--Morocco.

Islam--Relations--Judaism.

Judaism--Relations--Islam.

Local Subjects:

Islam--Relations--Judaism.

Judaism--Relations--Islam.

Physical Description:

xiii, 190 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

Summary:

Exploring the roles of Muslim guards and guides in Jewish cemeteries in morocco, the author suggests that these custodians use performances of ritual and caring acts for Jewish graves for multiple reasons. Imazighen [Berbers] stress their close ties with Jews in order to create a moral self intentionally set apart from the mono-ethically Arab and mono-religiously Muslim Morocco. Other subjects, and particularly women, use their ties with Jewish sites to harness power and prestige in their communities. Others still may care for these grave sites to express grief for a close Jewish friend or adoptive family. In examining these motives. The author not only documents the flow of material and spiritual capital across religious lines, but also moves beyond Muslim memory of the past on the one hand and Jewish dread of the future on the other to think about the Muslim/Jewish present in Morocco.

Contents:

1 Introduction: teaching me how to pray : Theoretical grounding

Identity interdependence and "drinking the milk of trust"

What is at stake?

References. 2 Orientation: arrival and framing the work of ethnography : Getting there

Doing ethnography as a Nus-Nus

Immediate failures

Outside the gate

Lessons from an unpleasant first visit

Authentic acts of care

Delimiting the ethnographic task

References. 3 Moroccan Muslims locating Moroccan Jews in time and space : Pre-Islamic Morocco

Arab invasion and Islamic Morocco

Legends of a North African Jewish kingdom

Exiles

Saint veneration

Colonialism and differentiation

exodus-contraction

Return

References. 4 Passover professionals : Matzah expertise

Passover with Hamou

Passover with Toudert and Rebha

The Seder as a performative act

Passover: a performance case study

References. 5 Guards: building Muslim authority in Jewish cemeteries : Places of contradiction

Sefrou

Repertoire

Essauira

Authentic "experts"

Timzerit

The heart of performance: recitation of relationships

Rabat

References. 6 Drinking the milk of trust: a performance of authenticity : Defining "self" through the other

Farming and integrity

Trading and formalizing ties

Prosperity and trust

Persecution

contacts and boundaries

A strange dinner: weirdness as a defining personality trait

To Abhbalou!: rural power, repertoire, and ethnopoetics

Arab idol interruption: why do you care so much?

Drinking the milk of trust

References. 7 Blessings and the business of cemetery tourism : Attractive narratives: prying tourists out of major cities

It's all about the guide: shaping the experience

Why start a cemetery tourism company?

Authenticity and authority

NGOs, cemeteries, and tourism

The blessings of Jewish graves

The Essaouira Project

Rehabilitating the "House[s] of Life

References. 8 Conclusion: changing flavor of the milk of trust : Jewish ties as a mechanism to create the self and "otherness"

Performing alternative histories

The material of Jewish sacred spaces

What's next?

References. Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index (page 189-190)

ISBN:

9783319787855

3319787853

OCLC:

1037808956