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Informationen zum Autor Katherine E. Hoffman is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Northwestern University. Her focus is on linguistic and sociocultural anthropology, ethnicity, indigenous people, and endangered languages. She has published articles in a range of journals, including American Ethnologist , Ethnomusicology , and the Journal of North African Studies . Klappentext We 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 people in the plains and mountains of rural southwestern Morocco. Through an entrenched moral code that favors male emigration, women have come to personify the rugged homeland and embody its native language - Tashelhit. They create frameworks in which knowledge of rural land, people, and expressive culture is positively valued. In contrast, national narratives centered on Arab identity marginalize Berbers yet immortalize Berber women as remnants of an idealized past. Through close analysis of verbal and song-texted forms, We Share Walls is a richly textured ethnography of anxiety and temerity among an overlooked Muslim group. Hoffman documents language choices and consequences in public and private contexts, providing insight into the everyday strategies Moroccan Berbers use to accommodate themselves to an Arabic-speaking society while retaining their own distinctive identity. With its fascinating semiotic and gender issues simmering beneath the surface, this engaging book will be of interest to scholars and students of anthropology, performance studies, sociolinguistics, and gender studies. Zusammenfassung We 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures, Tables and Transcripts viii Series Preface xi Copyright Acknowledgments xiii Note on Transcription and Transliteration xvii Part I Prelude 1 1 Introduction: Staying Put 3 2 On Fieldwork Methods and Movements: "Song Is Good Speech" 31 Part II Dissonance: Gender 47 3 The Gender of Authenticity 49 Part III Consonance: Homeland 81 4 Building the Homeland: Labor, Roads, Emigration 83 5 Voicing the Homeland: Objectification, Order, Displacement 110 Part IV Antiphony: Periphery 145 6 Transformation in the Sous Valley 147 7 Ishelhin into Arabs? Ethnolinguistic Differentiating Practices in the Periphery 164 Part V Resonance 193 8 Mediating the Countryside: Purists and Pundits on Tashelhit Radio 195 9 Conclusion 228 Notes 237 References 245 Index 257 ...
