ISBN:
9780812202434
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (344 pages)
Series Statement:
Contemporary Ethnography Ser
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.40964
Keywords:
Markets ; Morocco
;
Women ; Morocco ; Economic conditions
;
Women ; Morocco ; Social conditions
;
Women merchants ; Morocco
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
"Kapchan's splendid enthnographic study of women's performance genres in Beni Mellal, Morocco, is an outstanding contribution to gender studies and to the understanding of Middle Eastern society."--Choice.
Abstract:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Transcription and Transliteration -- Acknowledgments: Possession by Three Spirits -- Introduction: The Dialogic Enterprise of Wolnen in Changing Social Contexts -- Part One: Women in the Market -- Chapter One: In the Place of the Market -- Chapter Two: Shtara: Competence in (Cleverness -- Chapter Three: Words of Possession, Possession of Words:The Majduba -- Chapter Four: Words About Herbs: Feminine Performance of Oratory in the Marketplace -- Chapter Five: Reporting the New, Revoicing the Past: Marketplace Oratory and the Carnivalesque -- Part Two: Gender on the Market -- Chapter Six: Women on the Market: The Subversive Bride -- Chapter Seven: Catering to the Sexual Market: Female Performers Defining the Social Body -- Chapter Eight: Property in the (Other) Person: Mothers-in-Law, Working Women, and Maids -- Chapter Nine: Terms of Talking Back: Women's Discourse on Magic -- Chapter Ten: Conclusion: Hybridization and the Marketplace -- Appendix I: Discourse of the Majduba -- Appendix 2: Discourse of the 'Ashshaba -- Glossary -- A -- B -- D -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- W -- Z -- Bibliography -- Subject Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Author Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
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