Encounters with American Anthropologists in Morocco
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Mohamed Chtatou [1]
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[1] International University of Rabat
International University of Rabat
Marruecos
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- Localización: Hesperis Tamuda, ISSN 0018-1005, Nº. 55, 2, 2020, págs. 263-287
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
In the sixties, seventies and eighties of the last century, I had the chance and the honor to meet the American anthropologist Clifford Geertz and his team while they were doing their research on the bazaar economy in Sefrou: “Meaning and order in Moroccan society: three essays in cultural analysis,” while my English was still at the babbling stage. I felt frustrated that I could only communicate with them in smiles and not words, but on the other hand I was ecstatic that my father, then senior Ministry of Interior official, was responsible for their safety and well-being. In the seventies I met Carleton Stevens Coon Jr. In Rabat, Morocco and later on went to the US to meet his father who worked on the Gzennaya tribe (“Tribes of the Rif”) in the twenties of the twentieth century. Carleton Stevens Coon was the protégé of my grandfather Haj Abdeslam Chtatou known as Haj Abdeslam Agzennay, Caid of part of Gzennaya, who built him a house and provided him with a guide and bodyguard Lemnebhi and informants to do his work within the limits of his jurisdiction. In 1980, I met with David Hart, a student of Carleton Coon in London after the publication of his work on the Rifi tribe of Aith Waryaghar (“The Aith Waryaghar of the Moroccan Rif,”) and corresponded with him afterwards for years
