Table of Contents

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

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About the Author

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.

Reviews

"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