{"product_id":"railroads-and-the-american-people-railroads-past-and-present-9780253009111","title":"Railroads and the American People Railroads Past","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduces readers to life in this North African country through vivid accounts of fieldwork as personal experience and intellectual journey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e[T]he chapters of this eminently readable text 'build a richly textured portrait of the Kingdom of Morocco' . . . as well as a primer on the mode of ethnographic research. . . . the focus is on 'the daily struggles that underpin larger social processes', the dynamics of everyday life . . . . I can think of no better book to read for both a general audience and fellow scholars on Morocco as seen through the anthropological lens.\u003c\/p\u003e * Contemporary Islam *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e[T]he book offers much food for thought, crossing disciplinary and professional boundaries. It also has the added value of de-exoticizing a country which is too often exoticized and romanticized by policy-makers, tourism operators and various other interest groups, both foreign and Moroccan.\u003c\/p\u003e * Middle Eastern Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are two groups of readers who will particularly welcome this book:rst, students of anthropology, who contemplate doingeldwork in Morocco; second, scholars interested in reections on the production of anthropological knowledge in Morocco and beyond. The book is lucidly written and, as it dispenses with jargon, it is also accessible for a broad audience.\u003c\/p\u003e * Social Anthropology *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction \\ David Crawford and Rachel Newcomb\u003cbr\u003e1. Arabic or French? The Politics of Parole at a Psychiatric Hospital in Morocco \\ Charlotte E. van den Hout\u003cbr\u003e2. Time, Children, and Getting Ethnography Done in Southern Morocco \\ Karen Rignall\u003cbr\u003e3. Thinking about Class and Status in Morocco \\ David A. McMurray\u003cbr\u003e4. Forgive Me, Friend: Mohammed and Ibrahim \\ Emilio Spadola\u003cbr\u003e5. Suspicion, Secrecy, and Uncomfortable Negotiations over Knowledge Production in Southwestern Morocco \\ Katherine E. Hoffman\u003cbr\u003e6. The Activist and the Anthropologist \\ Paul A. Silverstein\u003cbr\u003e7. A Distant Episode: Religion and Belief in Moroccan Ethnography \\ Rachel Newcomb\u003cbr\u003e8. Shortcomings of a Reflexive Tool Kit; or, Memoir of an Undutiful Daughter \\ Jamila Bargach\u003cbr\u003e9. Reflecting on Moroccan Encounters: Meditations on Home, Genre, and the Performance of Everyday Life \\ Deborah Kapchan\u003cbr\u003e10. The Power of Babies \\ David Crawford\u003cbr\u003e11. Anthropologists among Moroccans \\ Kevin Dwyer\u003cbr\u003eReferences\u003cbr\u003eContributors\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400534270295,"sku":"9780253009111","price":19.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780253009111.jpg?v=1730470918","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/railroads-and-the-american-people-railroads-past-and-present-9780253009111","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}