We Share Walls

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Language, Land, and Gender in Berber Morocco

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<i>We Share Walls: Language, Land, and Gender in Berber Morocco</i> explores how political economic shifts over the last century have reshaped the language practices and ideologies of women (and men) in the plains and mountains of rural Morocco.<br /> <ul> <li>Offers a unique and richly textured ethnography of language maintenance and shift as well as language and place-making among an overlooked Muslim group</li> <li>Examines how Moroccan Berbers use language to integrate into the Arab-speaking world and retain their own distinct identity</li> <li>Illuminates the intriguing semiotic and gender issues embedded in the culture</li> <li>Part of the <i><a href=”http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-410785.html” target=”_blank”>Blackwell Studies in Discourse and Culture Series</a></i></li> </ul>