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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... female guests who were largely strangers brought together through the families of the bride and groom . Hajja's song contains an ambiguous referent that is suggestive of the marginalization these women experienced . When rural Ishelhin ...
... female guests who were largely strangers brought together through the families of the bride and groom . Hajja's song contains an ambiguous referent that is suggestive of the marginalization these women experienced . When rural Ishelhin ...
Page 60
... female con- versational dyads ( imsqarn ) . Young emigrants brought the unmarried women news of city life , fashion , adventure , gossip , and perhaps most importantly the hope that they , too , would one day leave the countryside . The ...
... female con- versational dyads ( imsqarn ) . Young emigrants brought the unmarried women news of city life , fashion , adventure , gossip , and perhaps most importantly the hope that they , too , would one day leave the countryside . The ...
Page 102
... female relatives were more aware of the impor- tance of female village networks . The transcript below captures the rude awakening that awaited the bride and the importance of garnering allies in the groom's village where she would ...
... female relatives were more aware of the impor- tance of female village networks . The transcript below captures the rude awakening that awaited the bride and the importance of garnering allies in the groom's village where she would ...
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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