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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hoffman, Katherine E.

Series:

Blackwell studies in discourse and culture ; 2.

Blackwell studies in discourse and culture ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Berbers--Morocco--Social life and customs.

Berbers.

Berbers--Morocco--Social conditions.

Women--Morocco.

Women.

Acculturation--Morocco.

Acculturation.

Morocco--Ethnic relations.

Morocco.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (282 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-256) and index.

ISBN:

9786611308483

9781281308481

128130848X

9780470694145

0470694149

9780470693339

0470693339

OCLC:

476173269