Moroccan Family Studies: a Historical Review
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Zakia Salime [1]
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[1] Rutgers University
Rutgers University
City of New Brunswick, Estados Unidos
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- Localización: Hesperis Tamuda, ISSN 0018-1005, Nº. 55, 3, 2020, págs. 351-392
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
I propose a literature review of studies on the family by addressing these questions. 1) What are the main paradigms through which colonial ethnography understood family life and organization in Morocco? 2) What kind of shifts did the emergence of a postcolonial (domestic) Social Science enable? 3) How did the rise of feminism as a political and cultural movement change the focus and terms of the debate? I organize this review as debates among, and between, these approaches while pointing to ruptures and continuities. Like any project of this scope, the availability of sources, space and time constraints, do not permit for a more exhaustive account. I am conscious that this selection remains incomplete in light of the colossal colonial legacy and postcolonial developments, and constraints on ethnographic research. To couch this literature in a postcolonial academic platform "Hespéris-Tamuda" is to acknowledge these entanglements, for the past one hundred years.
