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 56
... Look even now , the children of Ishelhin ( tarwa n šluḥ ) don't even speak it ! Look at the women in our village . They sit around all day staring at the television . With the satellite dish there's everything you want to watch ...
... Look even now , the children of Ishelhin ( tarwa n šluḥ ) don't even speak it ! Look at the women in our village . They sit around all day staring at the television . With the satellite dish there's everything you want to watch ...
Page 64
... look away . When a young boy called out , " Oh look it's still alive ! ” and the animal thrashed against the stone ground , I turned around . The spectators pulled back as the rabbit thrashed about then surrendered . The second ...
... look away . When a young boy called out , " Oh look it's still alive ! ” and the animal thrashed against the stone ground , I turned around . The spectators pulled back as the rabbit thrashed about then surrendered . The second ...
Page 94
... look at it , you'll see a lot of land left fallow . They say , “ Look , there's bread in the market , there's barley and ground wheat , what more do you want . " They want to let it go . The " they " in the grandmother's critique were ...
... look at it , you'll see a lot of land left fallow . They say , “ Look , there's bread in the market , there's barley and ground wheat , what more do you want . " They want to let it go . The " they " in the grandmother's critique were ...
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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