Title
North African Mosaic: A Cultural Reappraisal of Ethnic and Religious Minorities
Role
Co-editors: Nabil Boudraa, Joseph Krause
Contributing author: David L. Crawford
Files
Document Type
Book
Description/Summary
David Crawford is a contributing author, "Making Imazighen: Rural Berber Women, Household Organization, and the Production of Free Men", pp 329-346.
Book description: This book’s ambition is to offer the most recent scholarship on North African cultures at a time when the very notion of culture is being re-evaluated in the shifting tides that both associate and divorce the forces of nationalism, globalism and neo-liberalism. Another ambition is to be a readable document about the past and the potential of North African civilizations. Those which have been crystallized into a polysemic voice from centuries of occupations, exchanges and what is now commonly called hybridizations. In this work the collective position of the authors, with their different fields of experience, is that the languages, musics, and the many expressions of common life in North Africa continue to flourish. That they are a bridge between sub-Saharan peoples and Europe. That they are a necessary antidote to the anemic political discourses that have prevailed since decolonization. That they are seminal for the future of the African continent as it begins its true voyage into democracy. It is difficult, at this juncture, to measure the distance that, in the decades to come, will be achieved on that voyage. It is, however, less difficult to evaluate the importance of North Africa on tomorrow’s world. If the past is an indicator, it will be an important force in the cross-flow of trade, ideas and of global destinies.
ISBN
9781847182302
Publication Date
2007
Publication Information
Crawford, David L. "Making Imazighen: Rural Berber Women, Household Organization, and the Production of Free Men" in North African Mosaic: A Cultural Reappraisal of Ethnic and Religious Minorities, eds. Nabil Boudraa and Joseph Krause. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press. Pp. 329-346. 2007.
Recommended Citation
Boudraa, Nabil; Krause, Joseph; and Crawford, David, "North African Mosaic: A Cultural Reappraisal of Ethnic and Religious Minorities" (2007). Sociology & Anthropology Faculty Book and Media Gallery. 6.
https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/sociologyandanthropology-books/6