ISBN:
1405154209
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1405154217
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0470694149
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9781405154208
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9781405154215
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9780470694145
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xviii, 261 p)
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ill., map, music
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26 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Blackwell studies in discourse and culture 2
Parallel Title:
Print version We Share Walls : Language, Land, and Gender in Berber Morocco
DDC:
305.89/33064
Keywords:
Berbers Social conditions
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Acculturation
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Berbers Social life and customs
;
Women
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Morocco Ethnic relations
Abstract:
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 groupExamines how Moroccan Berbers use language to integrate into the Arab-speaking world and retain their own distinct identityIlluminates the intriguing semiotic and gender issues embedded in the culturePart of the
Description / Table of Contents:
We Share Walls; Contents; List of Figures,Tables and Transcripts; Series Preface; Copyright Acknowledgments; Note on Transcription and Transliteration; Part I Prelude; 1 Introduction:Staying Put; 2 On Fieldwork Methods and Movements:"Song Is Good Speech "; Part II Dissonance:Gender; 3 The Gender of Authenticity; Part III Consonance:Homeland; 4 Building the Homeland:Labor,Roads,Emigration; 5 Voicing the Homeland:Objecti . cation,Order,Displacement; Part IV Antiphony:Periphery; 6 Transformation in the Sous Valley; 7 Ishelhin into Arabs?Ethnolinguistic Differentiating Practices in the Periphery
Description / Table of Contents:
Part V Resonance8 Mediating the Countryside:Purists and Pundits on Tashelhit Radio; 9 Conclusion; Notes; References; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-256) and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
DOI:
10.1002/9780470694145
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