{"product_id":"we-share-walls-9781405154215","title":"We Share Walls","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWe Share Walls: Language, Land, and Gender in Berber Morocco\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers a unique and richly textured ethnography of language maintenance and shift as well as language and place-making among an overlooked Muslim group\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExamines how Moroccan Berbers use language to integrate into the Arab-speaking world and retain their own distinct identity\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIlluminates the intriguing semiotic and gender issues embedded in the culture\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ePart of the \u003ci\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/eu.wiley.com\/WileyCDA\/Section\/id-410785.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBlackwell Studies in Discourse and Culture Series\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In vivid prose, this breakthrough book portrays how Morocco’s Berber women and men – in remote villages and towns, on radio, and in schools – use language as a key element to shape how they ‘belong’ in Moroccan society today and in the process reshape the idea of ‘center’ and ‘periphery’.” \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDale F. Eickelman, Dartmouth College\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Katherine Hoffman is a gifted ethnographer and her nuanced account of language, gender, poetry, and place in Berber Morocco resonates with the rich sensory texture of lived experience. Her chapter on radio is alone worth the price of admission – a pioneering work of media ethnography in linguistic anthropology.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRichard Bauman, Indiana University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“With compassion and intellectual acuity, Hoffman’s study of the Berber-speaking Ishelhin of Southern Morocco evokes a society where the spoken word has molded a deep attachment to place. Her observations glow with the intensity of lived experience, distilled from a total immersion in the land, language, and people of this remote region. Using speech, poetry, and song as keys to understanding social process, \u003ci\u003eWe Share Walls\u003c\/i\u003e represents a major contribution to contemporary Moroccan Studies and to the wider field of ethnolinguistics.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSusan Gilson Miller, Harvard University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"A beautiful and deeply researched ethnography that elucidates how performance genres like talk, song, and poetry create a sense of place and a particularly Berber (and gendered) response to modernity.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDeborah Kapchan, The Tisch School of the Arts, New York University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"A richly detailed study of the changing politics of language in Morocco. Hoffman deftly shows how Berber women's everyday labour keeps alive the homeland and mother tongue that are the charged objects of migrant men's nostalgia and identity. This is linguistic anthropology at its best, and broadest.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLila Abu-Lughod, Columbia University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“At last we have an account of Berber Morocco that probes space, culture and people in a highly sensitive and eloquent style. Hoffman brings to the forefront a long marginalised language and an almost forgotten community. This is indeed ethnography at its best. Readers will be inspired by the breadth and depth of Hoffman’s treatment.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eEnam Al-Wer, University of Essex\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“An excellent in-depth study of the gender and language dynamics in Berber communities. A highly readable and timely addition to the emerging and promising scholarship on language, gender and women in Morocco.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eFatima Sadiqi, Harvard University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Figures, Tables and Transcripts viii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSeries Preface xi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCopyright Acknowledgments xiii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNote on Transcription and Transliteration xvii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I Prelude\u003ci\u003e 1\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Introduction: Staying Put 3\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 On Fieldwork Methods and Movements: “Song Is Good Speech” 31\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II Dissonance: Gender 47\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 The Gender of Authenticity 49\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III Consonance: Homeland 81\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Building the Homeland: Labor, Roads, Emigration 83\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Voicing the Homeland: Objectification, Order, Displacement 110\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV Antiphony: Periphery 145\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Transformation in the Sous Valley 147\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Ishelhin into Arabs? Ethnolinguistic Differentiating Practices in the Periphery 164\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V Resonance 193\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Mediating the Countryside: Purists and Pundits on Tashelhit Radio 195\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Conclusion 228\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 237\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 245\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 257\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50015033065815,"sku":"9781405154215","price":34.15,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781405154215.jpg?v=1739907787","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/we-share-walls-9781405154215","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}