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Book SynopsisOffers fresh perspectives on the various forms of social and political activism in Maghrib. This title presents some of the best thinking in the field of Berber studies, also offering insight into historical antecedents, language usage, land rights, household economies, artistic production, and human rights.
Trade ReviewHoffman and Miller have done a real service to the anthropology of North Africa by bringing these articles together. Any work done on Berbers in the future will stand on the shoulders of this excellent collection.
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Berbers and Others ... brings together some of the very best of the new generation of scholars working on Berber issues from a variety of perspectives ... both North Africanists and all those interested in the nexus between ethnicity, culture, politics, and history, will derive much benefit and pleasure from this elegant and informed volume.June 2011
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Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Note on Transliteration
Introduction / Katherine E. Hoffman and Susan Gilson Miller
Part 1. Sources and Methods
1. Histories of Heresy and Salvation: Arabs, Berbers, Community, and the State / James McDougall
2. Internal Fractures in the Berber-Arab Distinction: From Colonial Practice to Post-national Preoccupations / Katherine E. Hoffman
3. The Makhzan's Berber: Paths to Integration in Pre-Colonial Morocco / Mohamed El Mansour
Part 2. Practices: Local, National, and International
4. The Local Dimensions of Transnational Berberism: Racial Politics, Land Rights, and Cultural Activism in Southeastern Morocco / Paul A. Silverstein
5. Imazighen on Trial: Human Rights and Berber Identity in Algeria, 1985 / Jane E. Goodman
6. Globalization Begins at Home: Children's Wage Labor and the High Atlas Household / David Crawford
Part 3. Varieties of Representation
7. The "Numidian" Origins of North Africa / Mokhtar Ghambou
8. "First Arts" of the Maghrib: Exhibiting Berber Culture at the Musée du quai Branly / Lisa Bernasek
9. Deconstructing the History of Berber Arts: Tribalism, Matriarchy, and a Primitive Neolithic Past / Cynthia Becker
List of Contributors
Index
