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EncountEring Morocco Public cultures of the Middle east and north africa Paul silverstein, susan slyomovics, and ted swedenburg, editors EncountEring Morocco FiE ldwork and c ultural undE rstanding Edited by david crawFord and racHEl nEwcoMB indiana univErsity prEss Bloomington & Indianapolis This book is a publication of indiana university Press office of scholarly Publishing herman b Wells library 350 1320 east tenth street bloomington, indiana 47405 usa iupress.indiana.edu Telephone orders 800-8 42-6 796 Fax orders 812-8 55-7 931 © 2013 by indiana university Press all rights reserved no part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, in clud ing photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. The association of american university Presses’ resolution on Permissions constitutes the only exception to this prohibition. The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the ameri can national standard for information sciences— Permanence of Paper for Printed library Materials, ansi Z39.48- 1992. Manufactured in the united states of america library of congress cataloging-in-Publication data encountering Morocco : fieldwork and cultural understanding / edited by david crawford and rachel newcomb. pages cm. — (Public cultures of the Middle east and north africa) includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978-0-253-00904-3 (cloth : alk. paper) — isbn 978-0-253- 00911-1 (pbk. : alk. paper) — isbn 978-0-253-00919-7 (electronic book) 1. anthropology—fieldwork—Morocco. 2. anthropologists—Morocco. 3. Morocco—social life and customs. 4. intercultural communication— Morocco. i. crawford, david, [date] ii. newcomb, rachel, [date] iii. series: Public cultures of the Middle east and north africa. Gn649.M65e54 2013 306.0964—dc23 2012047778 1 2 3 4 5 18 17 16 15 14 13 to Jamila, noureddine, and sofia —r.n. to hillary, for acumen, inspiration, and the babies —d.c. contEnts Acknowledgments ix introduction David Crawford and Rachel Newcomb 1 1 arabic or french? The Politics of Parole at a Psychiatric hospital in Morocco Charlotte E. van den Hout 16 2 time, children, and Getting ethnography done in south ern Morocco Karen Rignall 40 3 Thinking about class and status in Morocco David A. McMurray 56 4 forgive Me, friend: Mohammed and ibrahim Emilio Spadola 77 5 suspicion, secrecy, and uncomfortable negotiations over Knowledge Production in southwest ern Morocco Katherine E. Hoffman 99 6 The activist and the anthropologist Paul A. Silverstein 116 7 a distant episode: religion and belief in Moroccan ethnography Rachel Newcomb 131 8 shortcomings of a reflexive tool Kit; or, Memoir of an undutiful daughter Jamila Bargach 146 9 reflecting on Moroccan encounters: Meditations on home, Genre, and the Performance of everyday life Deborah Kapchan 165 10 The Power of babies David Crawford 195 11 afterword: anthropologists among Moroccans Kevin Dwyer 213 References 257 Contributors 269 Index 271 acknowlEdg MEnts a version of chapter 4 previously appeared in Anthropological Quar- terly and is being reprinted with permission. The anecdotes in chap- ter 3 appeared in In and Out of Morocco, by david a. McMurray, and are used by permission of the university of Minnesota Press. ix
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