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Deborah Kapchan compellingly demonstrates that Moroccan women challenge some of the most basic cultural assumptions of their society-especially ones concerning power and authority.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49537519059217,"sku":"GOR009991742","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49993883255057,"sku":"CIN0812214269G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51008035520785,"sku":"NIN9780812214260","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0812214269.jpg?v=1751362285"},{"product_id":"cultural-heritage-in-transit-book-deborah-kapchan-9780812245943","title":"Cultural Heritage in Transit","description":"Analyzing heritage events-from Roma wedding music to Trinidadian wining, Moroccan verbal art, and neopagan rituals-Cultural Heritage in Transit tracks the effects of the heritage industry, focusing on cultural rights and human rights writ large.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49730084536593,"sku":"NGR9780812245943","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51136132219153,"sku":"NIN9780812245943","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0812245946.jpg?v=1752317202"},{"product_id":"poetic-justice-book-deborah-kapchan-9781477318492","title":"Poetic Justice","description":"Poetic Justice is the first anthology of contemporary Moroccan poetry in English. 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Reading this oeuvre from independence until the new millennium and beyond, it is clear that what poet Driss Mesnaoui calls the “letters of time” have long been in the hands of Moroccan poets, as they write their ethics, their aesthetics, as well as their gendered and political lives into poetic being.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49733098373393,"sku":"NGR9781477318492","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1477318496.jpg?v=1752315297"},{"product_id":"traveling-spirit-masters-book-deborah-kapchan-9780819568526","title":"Traveling Spirit Masters","description":"A group of ritual musicians and former slaves brought from sub-Saharan Africa to Morocco, the Gnawa heal those they believe to be possessed, using incense, music, and trance. But their practice is hardly of only local interest: the Gnawa have long participated in the world music market through collaborations with African-American jazz musicians and French recording artists. In this first book in English on Gnawa music and its global reach, author Deborah Kapchan explores how these collaborations transfigure racial and musical identities on both sides of the Atlantic. She also addresses how aesthetic styles associated with the sacred come to inhabit non-sacred contexts, and what new amalgams they produce. Her narrative details the fascinating intrinsic properties of trance, including details of enactment, the role of gesture and the body, and the use of the senses, and how they both construct authentic Gnawa identity and reconstruct historically determined relations of power. 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