We Share Walls
Subtitle: Language, Land, and Gender in Berber Morocco (Blackwell Studies in Discourse and Culture)
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; Blackwell Pub.
Published: December 26, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9781405154208
Subjects: Anthropology; Cultural And Social Anthropology; Ethnology And Ethnography; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Sociology; Morocco; Anthropology - Cultural; Gender Studies; Islamic Studies; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; Sociology - General
Description: "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.Offers a unique and richly textured ethnography of language maintenance and shift as well as language and place-making among an overlooked Muslim group. Examines how Moroccan Berbers use language to integrate into the Arab-speaking world and retain their own distinct identity. Illuminates the intriguing semiotic and gender issues embedded in the culture.