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  • From the Margins

    Historical Anthropology and Its Futures

    Historical anthropology: critical exchange between two decidedly distinct disciplines or innovative mode of knowledge production? As this volume’s title suggests, the essays Brian Keith Axel has gathered in From the Margins seek to challenge the limits of discrete disciplinary epistemologies and conventions, gesturing instead toward a transdisciplinary understanding of the emerging relations ... Read more

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  • Encountering Morocco

    Fieldwork and Cultural Understanding

    Series series Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
    Encountering Morocco introduces readers to life in this North African country through vivid accounts of fieldwork as personal experience and intellectual journey. We meet the contributors at diverse stages of their careers–from the unmarried researcher arriving for her first stint in the field to the seasoned fieldworker returning with spouse and children. They offer frank descriptions of what it ... Read more

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  • Anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa

    Into the New Millennium

    Series series Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
    This volume combines ethnographic accounts of fieldwork with overviews of recent anthropological literature about the region on topics such as Islam, gender, youth, and new media. It addresses contemporary debates about modernity, nation building, and the link between the ideology of power and the production of knowledge. Contributors include established and emerging scholars known for the depth ... Read more

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  • The Sacrifice of Black Cows

    A Novel from Morocco

    by Moha Layid ...
    Translated by Paul A. Silverstein ...
    Series Book 44 - MLA Texts and Translations
    An oasis community in Morocco hopes to stop a devastating drought by sacrificing black cows to satisfy the spirits. But the wise elder Bassou secretly plans a different solution: to sabotage the motorized pumps that have lowered the water table and nearly destroyed the subsistence farming and herding that support the local way of life. The young newlywed Yidir agrees to help him and eventually ... Read more

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  • Le sacrifice des vaches noires

    Une histoire marocaine

    by Moha Layid ...
    Series Book 44 - MLA Texts and Translations
    An oasis community in Morocco hopes to stop a devastating drought by sacrificing black cows to satisfy the spirits. But the wise elder Bassou secretly plans a different solution: to sabotage the motorized pumps that have lowered the water table and nearly destroyed the subsistence farming and herding that support the local way of life. The young newlywed Yidir agrees to help him and eventually ... Read more

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