Berbers And Others

Author : Katherine E. Hoffman,Susan Gilson Miller
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Africa, North
ISBN : 9780253354808

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Berbers and Others by Katherine E. Hoffman,Susan Gilson Miller Pdf

Berbers and Others offers fresh perspectives on new forms of social and political activism in today's Maghrib. In recent years, the Amazigh (Berber) movement has become a focus of widespread political, social, and cultural attention in North Africa, Europe, and the United States. Berber groups have peacefully yet persistently laid claim to ownership over broad areas of creativity in the arts, politics, literature, education, and national memory. The contributors to this volume present some of the best new thinking in the emerging field of Berber studies, offering insight into historical antecedents, language usage, land rights, household economies, artistic production, and human rights. The scope, depth, and multidisciplinary approach will engage specialists on the Maghrib as well as students of ethnicity, social and political change, and cultural innovation.

Author : Ramzi Rouighi
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812251302

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Inventing the Berbers by Ramzi Rouighi Pdf

Before the Arabs conquered northwest Africa in the seventh century, Ramzi Rouighi asserts, there were no Berbers. There were Moors (Mauri), Mauretanians, Africans, and many tribes and tribal federations such as the Leuathae or Musulami; and before the Arabs, no one thought that these groups shared a common ancestry, culture, or language. Certainly, there were groups considered barbarians by the Romans, but "Barbarian," or its cognate, "Berber" was not an ethnonym, nor was it exclusive to North Africa. Yet today, it is common to see studies of the Christianization or Romanization of the Berbers, or of their resistance to foreign conquerors like the Carthaginians, Vandals, or Arabs. Archaeologists and linguists routinely describe proto-Berber groups and languages in even more ancient times, while biologists look for Berber DNA markers that go back thousands of years. Taking the pervasiveness of such anachronisms as a point of departure, Inventing the Berbers examines the emergence of the Berbers as a distinct category in early Arabic texts and probes the ways in which later Arabic sources, shaped by contemporary events, imagined the Berbers as a people and the Maghrib as their home. Key both to Rouighi's understanding of the medieval phenomenon of the "berberization" of North Africa and its reverberations in the modern world is the Kitāb al-'ibar of Ibn Khaldūn (d. 1406), the third book of which purports to provide the history of the Berbers and the dynasties that ruled in the Maghrib. As translated into French in 1858, Rouighi argues, the book served to establish a racialized conception of Berber indigenousness for the French colonial powers who erected a fundamental opposition between the two groups thought to constitute the native populations of North Africa, Arabs and Berbers. Inventing the Berbers thus demonstrates the ways in which the nineteenth-century interpretation of a medieval text has not only served as the basis for modern historical scholarship but also has had an effect on colonial and postcolonial policies and communal identities throughout Europe and North Africa.

Author : Michael Peyron
Publisher : Poetry of Place
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1906011281

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Berber Odes by Michael Peyron Pdf

The Berber tribes of the mountains of Morocco provide one of the great and inspiring survival stories of our times. They have occupied their mountain homelands since before the dawn of history, and travelers have long marveled at how their music, dance, rock carvings, jewelry, tattoos, pottery, embroideries, and carpets are all impregnated with the wild soul of their landscape. Michael Peyron, who has taught, explored and researched the history of the Berbers for the last fifty years, has gathered together the first collection of English translations of traditional Berber odes.

Author : Ernest Gellner,Charles Antoine Micaud
Publisher : Lexington, Mass. : Lexington Books
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Africa, North
ISBN : UOM:39015002366535

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Arabs and Berbers by Ernest Gellner,Charles Antoine Micaud Pdf

Author : Bruce Maddy-Weitzman
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780292745056

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The Berber Identity Movement and the Challenge to North African States by Bruce Maddy-Weitzman Pdf

Like many indigenous groups that have endured centuries of subordination, the Berber/Amazigh peoples of North Africa are demanding linguistic and cultural recognition and the redressing of injustices. Indeed, the movement seeks nothing less than a refashioning of the identity of North African states, a rewriting of their history, and a fundamental change in the basis of collective life. In so doing, it poses a challenge to the existing political and sociocultural orders in Morocco and Algeria, while serving as an important counterpoint to the oppositionist Islamist current. This is the first book-length study to analyze the rise of the modern ethnocultural Berber/Amazigh movement in North Africa and the Berber diaspora. Bruce Maddy-Weitzman begins by tracing North African history from the perspective of its indigenous Berber inhabitants and their interactions with more powerful societies, from Hellenic and Roman times, through a millennium of Islam, to the era of Western colonialism. He then concentrates on the marginalization and eventual reemergence of the Berber question in independent Algeria and Morocco, against a background of the growing crisis of regime legitimacy in each country. His investigation illuminates many issues, including the fashioning of official national narratives and policies aimed at subordinating Berbers in an Arab nationalist and Islamic-centered universe; the emergence of a counter-movement promoting an expansive Berber "imagining" that emphasizes the rights of minority groups and indigenous peoples; and the international aspects of modern Berberism.

Author : Katherine E. Hoffman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780470693339

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We Share Walls by Katherine E. Hoffman Pdf

We Share Walls: Language, Land, and Gender in Berber Morocco 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. Offers a unique and richly textured ethnography of language maintenance and shift as well as language and place-making among an overlooked Muslim group Examines how Moroccan Berbers use language to integrate into the Arab-speaking world and retain their own distinct identity Illuminates the intriguing semiotic and gender issues embedded in the culture Part of the Blackwell Studies in Discourse and Culture Series

Author : Michael Brett,Elizabeth Fentress
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1997-12-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0631207678

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The Berbers by Michael Brett,Elizabeth Fentress Pdf

The Berbers provides a comprehensive overview of the history of the Berber-speaking peoples.

Author : Margaret Courtney-Clarke
Publisher : Clarkson Potter Publishers
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Africa, North
ISBN : UCSD:31822023514102

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Imazighen by Margaret Courtney-Clarke Pdf

As she has in her previous books, Ndebele: The Art of an African Tribe and African Canvas: The Art of West African Women, Margaret Courtney-Clarke turns her sensitive eye on women whose lives have seldom been observed. Her photos explore the remarkable arts and rapidly changing way of life of the Berber women of North Africa. 230 full-color photos.

Author : Senem Aslan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107054608

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Nation Building in Turkey and Morocco by Senem Aslan Pdf

This book compares the relatively peaceful relationship between the Berbers and the Moroccan state with the violent relationship between the Kurds and the Turkish state.

Author : Jane E. Goodman
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2005-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253217844

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Berber Culture on the World Stage by Jane E. Goodman Pdf

Annotation Explores Berber cultural identity and performance in Algeria, France, and on the world music scene.

Author : Willow Smith,Jess Hendel
Publisher : Random House Large Print
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593949023

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Black Shield Maiden by Willow Smith,Jess Hendel Pdf

From Willow Smith and Jess Hendel comes a powerful and groundbreaking historical saga about an African warrior in the world of the Vikings. “Intimate, tender, and fiercely epic.”—Tomi Adeyemi, author of Children of Blood and Bone Lore, legend, and history tell us of the Vikings: warrior kings on epic journeys of conquest and plunder. But the stories we know are not the only stories to tell. There is another story, one that has been lost to the mists of time: the saga of the dark queen. This saga begins with Yafeu, a defiant yet fiercely compassionate young warrior who is stolen from her home in the flourishing Ghānaian empire and taken to a distant kingdom in the North. There she is thrust into a strange, cold world of savage shield maidens, tyrannical rulers, and mysterious gods. And there she also finds something unexpected: a kindred spirit. She comes to serve Freydis, a shy princess who couldn’t be more different from the confident and self-possessed Yafeu. But they both want the same thing: to forge their own fate. Yafeu inspires Freydis to dream of a future greater than the one that the king and queen have forced upon her. And with the princess at her side, Yafeu learns to navigate this new world and grows increasingly determined to become one of the legendary shield maidens—to fight not only for her freedom but for the freedom of others. Yafeu may have lost her home, but she still knows who she is, and she’s not afraid to be the flame that burns a city to the ground so a new world can rise from the ashes. She will alter the course of history—and become the revolutionary heroine of her own myth.

Author : Hsain Ilahiane
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442281820

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Historical Dictionary of the Berbers (Imazighen) by Hsain Ilahiane Pdf

Berbers, also known as Imazighen, are the ancient inhabitants of North Africa, but rarely have they formed an actual kingdom or separate nation state. Ranging anywhere between 15-50 million, depending on how they are classified, the Berbers have influenced the culture and religion of Roman North Africa and played key roles in the spread of Islam and its culture in North Africa, Spain, and Sub-Saharan Africa. Taken together, these dynamics have over time converted to redefine the field of Berber identity and its socio-political representations and symbols, making it an even more important issue in the 21st century. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of the Berbers contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 200 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, places, events, institutions, and aspects of culture, society, economy, and politics. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the Berbers.

Author : Cynthia Becker
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9780292712959

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Amazigh Arts in Morocco by Cynthia Becker Pdf

In southeastern Morocco, around the oasis of Tafilalet, the Ait Khabbash people weave brightly colored carpets, embroider indigo head coverings, paint their faces with saffron, and wear ornate jewelry. Their extraordinarily detailed arts are rich in cultural symbolism; they are always breathtakingly beautiful—and they are typically made by women. Like other Amazigh (Berber) groups (but in contrast to the Arab societies of North Africa), the Ait Khabbash have entrusted their artistic responsibilities to women. Cynthia Becker spent years in Morocco living among these women and, through family connections and female fellowship, achieved unprecedented access to the artistic rituals of the Ait Khabbash. The result is more than a stunning examination of the arts themselves, it is also an illumination of women's roles in Islamic North Africa and the many ways in which women negotiate complex social and religious issues. One of the reasons Amazigh women are artists is that the arts are expressions of ethnic identity, and it follows that the guardians of Amazigh identity ought to be those who literally ensure its continuation from generation to generation, the Amazigh women. Not surprisingly, the arts are visual expressions of womanhood, and fertility symbols are prevalent. Controlling the visual symbols of Amazigh identity has given these women power and prestige. Their clothing, tattoos, and jewelry are public identity statements; such public artistic expressions contrast with the stereotype that women in the Islamic world are secluded and veiled. But their role as public identity symbols can also be restrictive, and history (French colonialism, the subsequent rise of an Arab-dominated government in Morocco, and the recent emergence of a transnational Berber movement) has forced Ait Khabbash women to adapt their arts as their people adapt to the contemporary world. By framing Amazigh arts with historical and cultural context, Cynthia Becker allows the reader to see the full measure of these fascinating artworks.

Author : Antonio Arnaiz-Villena
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781461542315

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Prehistoric Iberia by Antonio Arnaiz-Villena Pdf

The symposium "Prehistoric Iberia: genetics, anthropology and linguistics" was held in the Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid on 16th -17th November 1998. The idea was bringing together specialists who could address not clearly resolved historic and prehistoric issues regarding ancient Iberian and Mediterranean populations, following a multidisciplinary approach. This was necessary in the light of the new bulk of genetic, archeological and linguistic data obtained with the new DNA technology and the recent discoverings in the other fields. Genes may now be easily studied in populations, particularly HLA genes and markers of the mitochondrial DNA and the Y chromosome. Basques, Iberians, North Africans, Berbers (Imazighen) and Mediterraneans have presently been widely studied. The genetic emerging picture is that Mediterraneans are closely related from West (Basque, Iberians, Berbers) to East (Jews, Lebanese, Cretans); however, Greeks are outliers in all the analyses done by using HLA genes. Anthropologists and archeologists showed how there was no people substitution during the revolutionary Mesolithic-Neolithic transition; in addition, cultural relationships were found between Iberia and predinastic Egypt (EI Badari culture). Basque language translation into Spanish has been the key for relating most Mediterranean extinct languages. The Usko-Mediterranean languages were once spoken in a wide African and European area, which also included parts of Asia. This was the "old language" that was slowly substituted by Eurasian languages starting approximately after the Bronze Age (or 2,000 years BC).

Author : Susan Gilson Miller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521810708

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A History of Modern Morocco by Susan Gilson Miller Pdf

A richly documented survey of modern Moroccan history that will enthral those searching for the background to present-day events in the region.