Acknowledgments
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
New approaches to Berber experience and identity
Katherine E. Hoffman is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Northwestern University and author of We Share Walls: Language, Land, and Gender in Berber Morocco.
Susan Gilson Miller is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Davis. She is editor (with Mauro Bertagnin) of The Architecture and Memory of the Minority Quarter in the Muslim Mediterranean City.
"Provide[s] a richly detailed description and a nuanced analysis of the changing dynamics and politics of being a Berber in post-independence North Africa." Aomar Boum, University of Arizona
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