Everyday Life in Global Morocco by Rachel Newcomb

Everyday Life in Global Morocco by Rachel Newcomb

Following the story of one middle class family as they work, eat, love, and grow, Everyday Life in Global Morocco provides a moving and engaging exploration of how world issues impact lives. Rachel Newcomb shows how larger issues like gentrification, changing diets, and nontraditional approaches to marriage and fertility are changing what the everyday looks and feels like in Morocco. Newcomb's close engagement with the Benjelloun family presents a broad range of responses to the multifaceted effects of globalization. The lived experience of the modern family is placed in contrast with the traditional expectation of how this family should operate. This juxtaposition encourages new ways of thinking about how modern the notion of globalization really is.

This book is a unique and well-written ethnographic addition to the dialogue on globalisation and modern Morocco

* The Journal of North African Studies *

By placing personal experiences within the larger national and global context, the author provides a sympathetic view into the dislocation and upheaval experienced today by a large sector of Moroccan society, resulting from sweeping global forces.

* Choice *

A highly readable, insightful, and truly informative work, Everyday Life in Global Morocco is a significant addition to a long line of anthropological scholarship on Morocco intensely concerned with understanding and pluralizing modernity's potentialities and discontents. It will be valuable to students and scholars interested in globalization's material and symbolic terrains.

* American Ethnologist *

Rachel Newcomb is Professor of Anthropology at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida. She is coeditor with David Crawford of Encountering Morocco: Fieldwork and Cultural Understanding (IUP).

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ISBN 13	9780253031235
ISBN 10	0253031230
Title	Everyday Life in Global Morocco
Author	Rachel Newcomb
Series	Public Cultures Of The Middle East And North Africa
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Indiana University Press
Year published	2017-10-09
Number of pages	192
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