We Share Walls: Language, Land, and Gender in Berber MoroccoISBN: 978-1-4051-5421-5
Paperback
288 pages
January 2008, Wiley-Blackwell
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Dale F. Eickelman, Dartmouth College<!--end-->
“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.”
Richard Bauman, Indiana University
“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, We Share Walls
represents a major contribution to contemporary Moroccan Studies
and to the wider field of ethnolinguistics.”
Susan Gilson Miller, Harvard University
"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."
Deborah Kapchan, The Tisch School of the Arts, New York
University
"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."
Lila Abu-Lughod, Columbia University
“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.”
Enam Al-Wer, University of Essex
“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.”
Fatima Sadiqi, Harvard University