Description
Book SynopsisThe Performance of Human Rights in Morocco is a unique distillation of politics, anthropology, and performance, offering both a clear picture of the present state of human rights and a vision of a possible future for public protest and dissidence in Morocco.
Trade Review"An important contribution to scholarship on an area of the world that receives relatively little attention . . . as well as an important contribution to what is fast becoming a fifth subfield for anthropology: legal anthropology." *
Journal of Folklore Research *
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations
Preface
Chapter 1: Law and Custom
Chapter 2: Disappearance
Chapter 3: Prison
Chapter 4: The 1981 Casablanca Uprising and Its Aftermath
Chapter 5: Rani nimhik: Women and Testimony
Chapter 6: Islamist Political Prisoners
Chapter 7: Hatta la yatakarrar hadha: Never This Again
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
