We Share Walls Language, Land, and Gender in Berber Morocco [Paperback]

• 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
• Part of the Blackwell Studies in Discourse and Culture Series

List of Figures, Tables and Transcripts viii

Series Preface xi

Copyright Acknowledgments xiii

Note on Transcription and Transliteration xvii

Part I Prelude 1

1 Introduction: Staying Put 3

2 On Fieldwork Methods and Movements: “Song Is Good Speech” 31

Part II Dissonance: Gender 47

3 The Gender of Authenticity 49

Part III Consonance: Homeland 81

4 Building the Homeland: Labor, Roads, Emigration 83

5 Voicing the Homeland: Objectifi cation, Order, Displacement 110

Part IV Antiphony: Periphery 145

6 Transformation in the Sous Valley 147

7 Ishelhin into Arabs? Ethnolinguistic Differentiating Practices in the Periphery 164

Part V Resonance 193

8 Mediating the Countrl4