Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction David Crawford and Rachel Newcomb
1. Arabic or French? The Politics of Parole at a Psychiatric Hospital in Morocco Charlotte E. van den Hout
2. Time, Children, and Getting Ethnography Done in Southern Morocco Karen Rignall
3. Thinking about Class and Status in Morocco David A. McMurray
4. Forgive Me, Friend: Mohammed and Ibrahim Emilio Spadola
5. Suspicion, Secrecy, and Uncomfortable Negotiations over Knowledge Production in Southwestern Morocco Katherine E. Hoffman
6. The Activist and the Anthropologist Paul A. Silverstein
7. A Distant Episode: Religion and Belief in Moroccan Ethnography Rachel Newcomb
8. Shortcomings of a Reflexive Tool Kit; or, Memoir of an Undutiful Daughter Jamila Bargach
9. Reflecting on Moroccan Encounters: Meditations on Home, Genre, and the Performance of Everyday Life Deborah Kapchan
10. The Power of Babies David Crawford
11. Anthropologists among Moroccans Kevin Dwyer
References
Contributors
Index

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Introduces readers to life in this North African country through vivid accounts of fieldwork as personal experience and intellectual journey

About the Author

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.

Reviews

"Mixes personal memoir with sensitive observations about Morocco; searching questions about the nature of the fieldwork experience; and sometimes surprising revelations about aspects of Morocco that have received little attention. From activism to autism, and from fraught conversation to religious conversion, the range of approaches to the American anthropologist's encounter with Morocco and Moroccans is impressive. Indeed Morocco itself, and its anthropologist interlocutors, are seen in this collection as through a prism: refracted and brilliant." Brian T. Edwards, author of Morocco Bound: Disorienting America's Maghreb, from Casablanca to the Marrakech Express