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The Distance Between The Oral Statements Of An Ethnographer's Informants And The Printed Page Is Ordinarily Considerable. [...] Such Distancing Is Absent In The House Of Si Abd Allah. Here, A Modern, Young Moroccan Woman And A Middle-aged, Traditional Man, Her Maternal Cousin, Express Their Feelings And Opinions About Many Subjects While Conveying Intimate Accounts Of The Lives Of Their Maternal Relatives: Grandparents, Mothers, Aunts, Uncles, And Cousins. [...] Indeed, Many Glimpses Of Moroccan Daily Life Over The Last Hundred Years Are To Be Found In These Family Portraits. The Problems Of Earning A Living And The Strains Placed On Family Relationships By These Problems Form Narrative Threads Which Run Throughout Both Fatima Zohra's And Haji Muhammad's Ac- Counts. We Hear About The Hardships Of Life In The Mountain Village Of Their Origin, The Successes And Failures Of Labor Migration To Belgium, And Of Jobs And Businesses In Tangier. However, Observations About Many Other Subjects Are Woven Into Their Family History: Christians, Jews, The Qur'an, Muslim Saints And Women Receive The Most Index Entries, But Views On Many Other Topics Are Expressed. The Younger Cousin Has Lived In

Author

recorded, translated, and edited by Henry Munson, Jr

Publisher

New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press

Published

1984

Language

EN

ISBN

9780300030846

Subjects

History, Islam, Biography