NORTH AFRICAN MOSAIC: A CULTURAL REAPPRAISAL OF ETHNIC AND RELIGIOUS MINORITIES; ED. BY NABIL BOUDRAA

This book’s ambition is to offer the most recent scholarship on North African cultures at a time when the very notion of culture is being re-evaluated in the shifting tides that both associate and divorce the forces of nationalism, globalism and neo-liberalism. Another ambition is to be a readable document about the past and the potential of North African civilizations. Those which have been crystallized into a polysemic voice from centuries of occupations, exchanges and what is now commonly called hybridizations. In this work the collective position of the authors, with their different fields of experience, is that the languages, musics, and the many expressions of common life in North Africa continue to flourish. That they are a bridge between sub-Saharan peoples and Europe. That they are a necessary antidote to the anemic political discourses that have prevailed since decolonization. That they are seminal for the future of the African continent as it begins its true voyage into democracy. It is difficult, at this juncture, to measure the distance that, in the decades to come, will be achieved on that voyage. It is, however, less difficult to evaluate the importance of North Africa on tomorrow’s world. If the past is an indicator, it will be an important force in the cross-flow of trade, ideas and of global destinies. Introduction / Nabil Boudraa And Joseph Krause -- Essentials For Rethinking Approaches To Postcolonial Arts And Cultures : The Problematic Of Minoritizing In North Africa / Kamal Salhi -- The Ethnic Mosaic In The Maghreb : Cultures In Crisis / Taoufik Djebali And Lee Whitfield -- Local Songs, Global Circuits : Berber Culture On A World Stage / Jane E. Goodman -- Islam, Laicite, And Amazigh Activism In France And North Africa / Paul A. Silverstein -- Emigration-immigration : Abdelmalek Sayad's Sociology Of Migration / Kay Adamson -- The Transnational Nation Building Of The Amazigh Cultural Movement : Class, Gender And Marginalisation In A Virtual Perspective / Terhi Lehtinen -- From The Maghreb To Al-andalus : Berbers In A Medieval Islamic Society / Helena De Felipe -- On The Origins And Identity Of Indigenous North African Jews / Daniel Schroeter -- Wit, Ruse, Rivalry And Other Keys To Coexistence : Reflections Of Jewish-muslim Relations In Berber Oral Traditions / Sarah Levin -- Schooling For A Modern Coptic Subjectivity In Nineteenth Century Egypt / Paul Sedra -- Dancing For The Moroccan State : Ethnic Folk Dances And The Production Of National Hybridity / Aomar Boum -- Nationalist And Islamist Discourse And The Socio-political Implications Of Recognizing Tamazight (berber) In Morocco / Mohammed Errihani -- From Jbel Fazaz To Middle Atlas : From Boondocks To Boom Towns : The Past As Key To The Present / Michael Peyron -- Contemporary Moroccan And Algerian Painters : Custodians Of Amazigh Consciousness / Cynthia Becker -- Colonial Formations In Western Saharan National Identity / Jacob Mundy -- The Igurramn, A Berber Religious Lineage In Morocco : A Minority Within A Minority / Habiba Boumlik -- Making Imazighen : Rural Berber Women, Household Organization, And The Production Of Free Men / David Crawford. Edited By Nabil Boudraa, Joseph Krause. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [377]-410) And Index.