We Share Walls: Language, Land, and Gender in Berber MoroccoWe 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.
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Page 11
... Arabic , French , and increasingly English - not the contracting ( so - called " endangered " ) Tashelhit language . For monolingual Tashelhit - speaking village women , languages were powerful resources they lacked . This was in part ...
... Arabic , French , and increasingly English - not the contracting ( so - called " endangered " ) Tashelhit language . For monolingual Tashelhit - speaking village women , languages were powerful resources they lacked . This was in part ...
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... language , yet emigrant men remained the strongest sup- porters of Tashelhit language maintenance , although they were least able to participate in it . Men's presence was constant despite their absence , however , due to women's ...
... language , yet emigrant men remained the strongest sup- porters of Tashelhit language maintenance , although they were least able to participate in it . Men's presence was constant despite their absence , however , due to women's ...
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... language's survival . Speakers guarded against using Arabic unless required , and against the impurity of Arabic and French loan words . But the young activist in the taxi went further , stating that Tashelhit ... Tashelhit faced threats ...
... language's survival . Speakers guarded against using Arabic unless required , and against the impurity of Arabic and French loan words . But the young activist in the taxi went further , stating that Tashelhit ... Tashelhit faced threats ...
Contents
Figures Tables and Transcripts | 9 |
Song | 31 |
Transcripts | 42 |
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Agadir agricultural agwal Aisha amarg Amazigh Amazigh language Anti-Atlas mountains Arabic-speaking Arazan Arghen Ashelhi assimilated Aznag Berber Berber language bilingual bride Casablanca cassette Chapter code-switching countryside cultural discourse dwellers economic Endangered Languages ethnic ethnographic everyday father female French Ftuma gender genres girls Hajja Hassan High Atlas Hoffman homeland Ida ou Zeddout identity Igherm indigenous Khadduj labor Lalla Aisha land language ideologies language shift lexical linguistic listeners live male Marrakesh migrant monolingual Moroccan Arabic Morocco native performances plains Ishelhin political economy practices programming Protectorate purist Rabat region residents rural Saadia singing social song Sous plains Sous Valley speak Tashelhit speech sung Tafraout talk Tamazight tamazirt tamlḥaft tammara Tarifit Taroudant Tash Tashelhit language Tashelhit radio Tashelhit speakers Tashelhit-speaking term timizar tion tizrrarin Transcript University Press urban verbal expressive vernacular verses village Wakrim wedding woman words young emigrant young women zerda