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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... carrying wood from the forest , but is otherwise scorned as stupid and stubborn , its name a common insult . In Fadma's view , languages were useful only when they achieved some end ; languages were ( as the villagers believed ) what ...
... carrying wood from the forest , but is otherwise scorned as stupid and stubborn , its name a common insult . In Fadma's view , languages were useful only when they achieved some end ; languages were ( as the villagers believed ) what ...
Page 96
... carrying wood was one activity that men considered characteristic of Tashelhit female identity . This point was illustrated for me a few weeks after a storm . The village women had chopped down some of the trees that a strong wind had ...
... carrying wood was one activity that men considered characteristic of Tashelhit female identity . This point was illustrated for me a few weeks after a storm . The village women had chopped down some of the trees that a strong wind had ...
Page 108
... Carrying out their tammara day in and day out was still oppressive to women ; they told me they were becoming less patient for its rewards . 14 Conclusion The Ishelhin among whom I worked were aware that their relationship to their ...
... Carrying out their tammara day in and day out was still oppressive to women ; they told me they were becoming less patient for its rewards . 14 Conclusion The Ishelhin among whom I worked were aware that their relationship to their ...
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We Share Walls: Language, Land, and Gender in Berber Morocco Katherine E. Hoffman Limited preview - 2008 |
We Share Walls: Language, Land, and Gender in Berber Morocco Katherine E. Hoffman No preview available - 2008 |
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Agadir agricultural agwal amarg Amazigh Amazigh language Anti-Atlas mountains Arabic-speaking Arazan Arghen Ashelhi assimilated Aznag Berber Berber language bilingual bride Casablanca cassette Chapter code-switching collective contrast countryside discourse dwellers economic Endangered Languages ethnic ethnographic ethnolinguistic everyday Fatima female fieldwork French Ftuma gender genres girls Hajja Hassan High Atlas Hoffman homeland Ida ou Zeddout identity Igherm indigenous Khadduj labor land language ideologies language shift lexical linguistic listeners live makhzen male Marrakesh migrant monolingual moral Moroccan Arabic Morocco native performance plains Ishelhin political economy programming Protectorate purist Rabat region residents rural Saadia singing social song Sous plains Sous Valley speak Tashelhit speech sung symbolic Tafraout talk Tamazight tamazirt tammara Tarifit Taroudant Tash Tashelhit language Tashelhit radio Tashelhit speakers Tashelhit-speaking term timizar tion tizrrarin towns Transcript urban verbal expressive vernacular verses village Wakrim wedding woman words young emigrant young women zerda