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280 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm |
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Narrations of: al-Hajj Muhammad and Fatima Zohra. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-274) and index. |
| Language |
Translated from the Arabic. |
| Credits |
Narrated by al-Hajj Muhammad and Fatima Zohra. |
| Contents |
Introduction ---- I. Si Abd Allah (1870-1932) Peasant of the village of the streams ---- II. Shama, daughter of Si Abd Allah (1918-1960) ---- III. Amina daughter of Si Abd Allah (1919- ) ---- Iv. Suudiyya, daughter of Si Abd Allah (1920- ) ---- V. Hmid, son of Si Abd Allah (1923- ) ---- VI. Mhammad, son of Si Abd Allah (1925- ) ---- VII. Al-Hajja Khadduj, daughter of Si Abd Allah (1926- ). |
| Summary |
The distance between the oral statements of an ethnographer's informants and the printed page is ordinarily considerable. ... Such distancing is absent in The House of Si Abd Allah. Here, a modern, young Moroccan woman and a middle-aged, traditional man, her maternal cousin, express their feelings and opinions about many subjects while conveying intimate accounts of the lives of their maternal relatives: grandparents, mothers, aunts, uncles, and cousins. ... Indeed, many glimpses of Moroccan daily life over the last hundred years are to be found in these family portraits. The problems of earning a living and the strains placed on family relationships by these problems form narrative threads which run throughout both Fatima Zohra's and Haji Muhammad's accounts. We hear about the hardships of life in the mountain village of their origin, the successes and failures of labor migration to Belgium, and of jobs and businesses in Tangier. However, observations about many other subjects are woven into their family history: Christians, Jews, the Qur'an, Muslim saints and women receive the most index entries, but views on many other topics are expressed. The younger cousin has lived in Europe and the United States and at the time of writing was a part-time university student in America, while her cousin, at 52, was a poor, childless peddler in Tangiers. Their views sharply differ, as one might expect, although in their opinions of colonialism and of the behavior of foreigners there is often substantial agreement. |
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Si ‘Abd Allh family.
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Morocco -- Genealogy.
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Families -- Research -- Morocco.
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Morocco -- History -- 20th century.
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Islam -- Morocco.
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Si ‘Abd Allh family. (OCoLC)fst00217743
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Families -- Research. (OCoLC)fst01728937
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Islam. (OCoLC)fst00979776
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Morocco. (OCoLC)fst01205592
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Genealogy. (OCoLC)fst01423818
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| Added Author |
Munson, Henry, 1946-
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Fatima Zohra.
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| ISBN |
0300030843 (hbk.) |
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9780300030846 (hbk.) |
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0300050291 |
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9780300050295 |
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