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 63
... wanted for a stew , the spry elderly cobbler who had been sitting with us dramatically pulled out a silky brown and white rabbit from under his beige wool jellaba . The young men and women laughed and cheered in delight as the cobbler ...
... wanted for a stew , the spry elderly cobbler who had been sitting with us dramatically pulled out a silky brown and white rabbit from under his beige wool jellaba . The young men and women laughed and cheered in delight as the cobbler ...
Page 151
... wanted " her , meaning wanted to marry her . She signed it . I told her not to tell anyone that I had written it , because I did not want to get in trouble with her father or the village men . She promised . If I had not been around to ...
... wanted " her , meaning wanted to marry her . She signed it . I told her not to tell anyone that I had written it , because I did not want to get in trouble with her father or the village men . She promised . If I had not been around to ...
Page 152
... wanted to marry him and she said she did , if he asked ; she smiled and asked rhetorically , " Is that bad ? " She said she thought that it was better to marry a relative than a stranger who might beat her and leave her no recourse for ...
... wanted to marry him and she said she did , if he asked ; she smiled and asked rhetorically , " Is that bad ? " She said she thought that it was better to marry a relative than a stranger who might beat her and leave her no recourse for ...
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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