This thesis is an ethnographic exploration of the politics and organization of daily work and local identity among Tashelhit (Berber) speaking farmers in the Western High Atlas, Morocco. Based on fourteen months of fieldwork in the village of Tagharghist, I examine local configu…
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The dissertation examines Berber cultural identity in Algeria and France through the vehicle of a new world music genre, called New Kabyle Song or la nouvelle chanson kabyle, which blends the harmonies, instruments, performance modalities, and technologies associated with Wester…
For 90 years Celticists have known of a long list of features whereby Insular Celtic syntax deviates from the Indo-European norm, but agrees with Semitic, Egyptian, and/or Berber (hereafter "Mediterranean Hamito-Semitic"). Such features include VSO macrotype, conjugated preposit…
Forty years of Moroccan cinema (films and film industry) proffer significant insights into various, sometimes contradictory, aspects of the nation and people. Historiographic analysis of production, distribution and exhibition comprises one level of influences upon and ramificat…
This dissertation is both a theoretical proposal about exile and identity and an engaged reading of novels by Assia Djebar and Nabile Farès. The gist of my argument is that Djebar and Farès bring together the specificities of the Algerian—and more generally the francophone—write…
French writers of Maghrebi Arab and Berber heritage have published a significant body of fiction over the last fifteen years. Although this fiction shares the same language with, not to mention many of the themes and concerns of, Francophone North African and mainstream French l…
This thesis reassesses the Early Islamic Trans-Saharan Trade primarily via archaeological data from the northern Sahel of West Africa. Specifically, it focuses on the trading entrepots which developed on the southern fringes of the Sahara during the Early Islamic period. This re…
The sovereign power of the nation to police who has the right to live or work within its territory is experienced and undone everyday by Muslim immigrants and their children who struggle to find jobs and a safe place to raise their families in France while facing social, economi…
North African art and material culture—textiles, pottery, jewelry and other objects—have been exhibited and sold in France since the nineteenth century. Today these objects are central to both state-run museum projects and to projects of self-representation carried out by people…
Postcolonial migrants appear in European space as the figure of a paradox, continuously re-insinuating the problem of cultural multiplicity and of political borders between citizens and others. This work is an attempt to reformulate the terms of this encounter as played out in t…
Berber regions of North Africa have long resisted incursion from the outside world. Regional conquests from the Punics, Greeks and Romans were repeatedly met with persistent and at times violent resistance, particularly under Greek and Roman rule. With the Arab conquest in the s…
The purpose of this study is to investigate the nature of code switching between Tamazight and Arabic in light of Myers-Scotton's (MLF) (Myers- Scotton, 1993), and the 4-M model of code switching (Myers-Scotton & Jake, 2000). Data come from the very first Libyan Tamazight news b…