Description: Channeling Moroccanness by Becky L. Schulthies This book explores how Moroccans engage communicative failure as they seek to shape social and political relations in urban Fez. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Honorable Mention, 2022 L. Carl Brown AIMS Book Prize in North African StudiesWhat does it mean to connect as a people through mass media? This book approaches that question by exploring how Moroccans engage communicative failure as they seek to shape social and political relations in urban Fez. Over the last decade, laments of language and media failure in Fez have focused not just on social relations that used to be and have been lost but also on what ought to be and had yet to be realized. Such laments have transpired in a range of communication channels, from objects such as devotional prayer beads and remote controls; to interactional forms such as storytelling, dress styles, and orthography; to media platforms like television news, religious stations, or WhatsApp group chats. Channeling Moroccanness examines these laments as ways of speaking that created Moroccanness, the feeling of participating in the ongoing formations of Moroccan relationality. Rather than furthering the discourse about Moroccos conflict between liberal secularists and religious conservatives, this ethnography shows the subtle range of ideologies and practices evoked in Fassi homes to calibrate Moroccan sociality and political consciousness. Author Biography Becky Schulthies is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University. Table of Contents Note on Transcription and Translation | ixIntroduction: Moroccan Channels, Channeling Moroccanness | 11 A Fassi Linguascape | 372 Literate Listening: Broadcast News and Ideologies of Reasoning | 433 Reregistering Media and Remediating a Register: Moroccan Morality Tales | 734 Scripting Sounds and Sounding Scripts: Senses, Channels, and Their Discontents | 1025 Mediating Moroccan Muslims | 137Conclusion: Opening and Closing the Channels | 169Appendixes | 175Acknowledgments | 189Notes | 191Bibliography | 203Index | 219 Review Channeling Moroccanness is highly readable and brisk. Schulthiess intimate descriptions of timely media practices and Moroccans discussions of their effects contribute important ethnographic detail on the weaving of technological media into everyday communications and evince her extensive ethnographic labor. This is a vital and compelling book.---Emilio Spadola, Colgate UniversityIn Channeling Moroccanness, Becky Schulthies challenges anthropological linguistics by pushing beyond the speech event to different contexts of speaking, listening, and viewing to come up with what she calls a calibration of Moroccan sociality. The book is an important and distinctive contribution to the ethnography of Morocco.---Steven Caton, Harvard University...this work offers a revised conceptualization of what listening, speaking, reading, and writing are, and what they do. It also offers a rich analysis of media channels as they structure sociality and makes one wonder if anyone can read a text without hearing it. Ultimately, Schulthies work productively blurs linguistic categorization and considers the full spectrum of multimodal communicative practice.-- "Language in Society"...Channeling Moroccanness offers a welcome intervention into what can often be stale and binary debates about language, religion, identity, and politics in the contemporary Maghrib. It also offers an innovative way of conceptualizing and studying national identities and national publics through the lens of lament and communicative failure. Perhaps most importantly, it offers a subtle sense of hope for the possibility of social connection to exist despite, or perhaps even because of fractures.-- "The Middle East Journal" Review Quote ...this work offers a revised conceptualization of what listening, speaking, reading, and writing are , and what they do . It also offers a rich analysis of media channels as they structure sociality and makes one wonder if anyone can read a text without hearing it. Ultimately, Schulthies work productively blurs linguistic categorization and considers the full spectrum of multimodal communicative practice. Competing Titles Spadola, Emilio Calls of Islam 978-0-253-01137-4 Indiana University Press Tarek El-Ariss, Leaks, Hacks, and Scandals: Arab Culture in the Digital Age (Princeton, 2018) Abu Lughod, Lila Dramas of Nationhood 9780226001975 University of Chicago Press Fordham Hillewaert Napolitano Chawla Feature This book brings the politics of Arabic into analysis of Middle East media and sociality. Description for Sales People This book brings the politics of Arabic into analysis of Middle East media and sociality. Details ISBN0823289710 Author Becky L. Schulthies Pages 240 Publisher Fordham University Press Year 2020 ISBN-10 0823289710 ISBN-13 9780823289714 Format Hardcover Imprint Fordham University Press Subtitle Language and the Media of Sociality Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Short Title Channeling Moroccanness Language English UK Release Date 2020-12-01 Publication Date 2020-12-01 AU Release Date 2020-12-01 NZ Release Date 2020-12-01 US Release Date 2020-12-01 Illustrations 11 b/w illustrations Illustrator Candice Whatmore Edited by Alessio Mazzoni Birth 1947 Affiliation Yunnan Univ, China Position DESNDE Qualifications Ph.D. DEWEY 302.20964/34 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:131534414;
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