A Street in Marrakech - Softcover

Elizabeth Warnock Fernea

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0881334049 ISBN 13: 9780881334043

Publisher: Waveland Pr Inc, 1988

Synopsis

This is a reflexive account of an American woman and her family's unpredictable journey through the private and public worlds of a traditional Muslim city in the process of change. As a Western stranger in Marrakech, Fernea was met with suspicion and hostility. The story of the slow growth of trust and acceptance between the author and her Moroccan neighbors involves the reader in everyday activities, weddings, funerals, and women's rituals. Both the author and her friends are changed by the encounters that she describes. A Street in Marrakech is a crosscultural adventure, ethnographically sound, and written in an accessible style.

Titles of related interest from Waveland Press: Azoy, Buzkashi: Game and Power in Afghanistan, Third Edition (ISBN 9781577667209); Brenneman, As Strong as the Mountains: A Kurdish Cultural Journey, Second Edition (ISBN: 9781478629306); Jordan, The Making of a Modern Kingdom: Globalization and Change in Saudi Arabia (ISBN 9781577667025); and Omidian, When Bamboo Bloom (ISBN 9781577667001).

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Review:

"All of Fernea's books enter the unknown and private world of veiled women, devout Muslims, and Middle Eastern households. From hostility to trust, she shows lives most Westerners will never see." --Martha C. Ward, University of New Orleans

"This is a timeless book as relevant today as when first written." --Colleen Cohen, Vassar College

About this edition

• Publisher: Waveland Pr Inc
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0881334049
• ISBN 13: 9780881334043
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 382