Encountering Morocco

David Crawford is Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Fairfield University, and author of Moroccan Households in the World Economy: Labor and Inequality in a Berber Village.Rachel Newcomb is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Rollins College and author of Women of Fes: Ambiguities of Life in Urban Morocco.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction \ David Crawford and Rachel Newcomb1. Arabic or French? The Politics of Parole at a Psychiatric Hospital in Morocco \ Charlotte E. van den Hout2. Time, Children, and Getting Ethnography Done in Southern Morocco \ Karen Rignall3. Thinking about Class and Status in Morocco \ David A. McMurray4. Forgive Me, Friend: Mohammed and Ibrahim \ Emilio Spadola5. Suspicion, Secrecy, and Uncomfortable Negotiations over Knowledge Production in Southwestern Morocco \ Katherine E. Hoffman6. The Activist and the Anthropologist \ Paul A. Silverstein7. A Distant Episode: Religion and Belief in Moroccan Ethnography \ Rachel Newcomb8. Shortcomings of a Reflexive Tool Kit; or, Memoir of an Undutiful Daughter \ Jamila Bargach9. Reflecting on Moroccan Encounters: Meditations on Home, Genre, and the Performance of Everyday Life \ Deborah Kapchan10. The Power of Babies \ David Crawford11. Anthropologists among Moroccans \ Kevin DwyerReferencesContributorsIndex

[T]he chapters of this eminently readable text 'build a richly textured portrait of the Kingdom of Morocco' . . . as well as a primer on the mode of ethnographic research. . . . the focus is on 'the daily struggles that underpin larger social processes', the dynamics of everyday life . . . . I can think of no better book to read for both a general audience and fellow scholars on Morocco as seen through the anthropological lens.(Contemporary Islam) [T]he book offers much food for thought, crossing disciplinary and professional boundaries. It also has the added value of de-exoticizing a country which is too often exoticized and romanticized by policy-makers, tourism operators and various other interest groups, both foreign and Moroccan.(Middle Eastern Studies) There are two groups of readers who will particularly welcome this book:rst, students of anthropology, who contemplate doingeldwork in Morocco; second, scholars interested in reections on the production of anthropological knowledge in Morocco and beyond. The book is lucidly written and, as it dispenses with jargon, it is also accessible for a broad audience.(Social Anthropology)