Ethnicities, Community Making, and Agrarian Change: The Political Ecology of a Moroccan Oasis
This ethnography studies how, when, and under what circumstances culture change occurs. It is author Hsain Ilahiane's conviction that culture change directly affects resource use and community building processes. This study investigates the relationship between ethnicity and agricultural production at the household level, as well as the result of recent ethnic transformations in the restructuring of patterns of land access and social mobility within ethnically stratified communities.

Ilahiane focuses specifically on the intensive farming systems of Morocco's Ziz Oasis, a 250 km long expanse watered by the Ziz River. Surrounded by Saharan desert, the valley houses a dense, rapidly grown, and ethnically diverse population of Arabs, Berbers, and Haratine (blacks). The author employs a varied body of data collected during fieldwork, including ethnographic accounts, oral histories and colonial archival records, and socio-economic and ecological findings based on a household questionnaire strategy.

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Ethnicities, Community Making, and Agrarian Change: The Political Ecology of a Moroccan Oasis
This ethnography studies how, when, and under what circumstances culture change occurs. It is author Hsain Ilahiane's conviction that culture change directly affects resource use and community building processes. This study investigates the relationship between ethnicity and agricultural production at the household level, as well as the result of recent ethnic transformations in the restructuring of patterns of land access and social mobility within ethnically stratified communities.

Ilahiane focuses specifically on the intensive farming systems of Morocco's Ziz Oasis, a 250 km long expanse watered by the Ziz River. Surrounded by Saharan desert, the valley houses a dense, rapidly grown, and ethnically diverse population of Arabs, Berbers, and Haratine (blacks). The author employs a varied body of data collected during fieldwork, including ethnographic accounts, oral histories and colonial archival records, and socio-economic and ecological findings based on a household questionnaire strategy.

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Ethnicities, Community Making, and Agrarian Change: The Political Ecology of a Moroccan Oasis

Ethnicities, Community Making, and Agrarian Change: The Political Ecology of a Moroccan Oasis

by Hsain Ilahiane
Ethnicities, Community Making, and Agrarian Change: The Political Ecology of a Moroccan Oasis

Ethnicities, Community Making, and Agrarian Change: The Political Ecology of a Moroccan Oasis

by Hsain Ilahiane

Overview

This ethnography studies how, when, and under what circumstances culture change occurs. It is author Hsain Ilahiane's conviction that culture change directly affects resource use and community building processes. This study investigates the relationship between ethnicity and agricultural production at the household level, as well as the result of recent ethnic transformations in the restructuring of patterns of land access and social mobility within ethnically stratified communities.

Ilahiane focuses specifically on the intensive farming systems of Morocco's Ziz Oasis, a 250 km long expanse watered by the Ziz River. Surrounded by Saharan desert, the valley houses a dense, rapidly grown, and ethnically diverse population of Arabs, Berbers, and Haratine (blacks). The author employs a varied body of data collected during fieldwork, including ethnographic accounts, oral histories and colonial archival records, and socio-economic and ecological findings based on a household questionnaire strategy.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780761828761
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 11/19/2004
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 248
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.52(d)

About the Author

Hsain Ilahiane is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa. His primary research focuses on natural and cultural resource management, ethnicity and social mobility, and technological and cultural change. Professor Ilahiane also studies the uses of mobile technology in economic, social, and cultural development in Morocco. He holds a doctorate in Anthropology from the University of Arizona.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 List of Figures
Chapter 2 List of Photographs
Chapter 3 List of Tables
Chapter 4 Preface
Chapter 5 A Note on Transliteration
Chapter 6 Ethnicities, Community Making, and Agrarian Change in the Ziz Oasis: An Introduction
Chapter 7 The Cultural Ecology of the Ziz Oasis: An Ethno-geographical Narrative of the Ziz Oasis; Climate; Soils; Hydrology and Irrigation Infrastructure; Demography; Agriculture; Conclusion
Chapter 8 The Political Ecology of the Ziz Oasis: "Those Who Have Incurred the Wrath of God"; The Ziz Oasis Evolutionary Drama of Power Struggles; The Saharan Caravan Trade; The Fate of Sijilmassa; The French Arrive to Tafilaet; Communities of Social Stratifi
Chapter 9 The Traditional Social Organization of the Ziz Oasis Villages: The Ksar's Spatial Organization; The Ksar's Socio-political Organization; Law and Order; The Ksar's Economic Organization; Land Tenure Organization; Economic Differenti
Chapter 10 The Ethnographic Present of the Ziz Oasis Agrarian Society: The Social History of the Villages; Population and Emigration; Households and Household Composition; Rules of Inheritance; Housing and Food Habits; The Ziz Oasis Work Force Structure; Marke
Chapter 11 The Farming Systems of the Ziz Oasis: The Agricultural Calendar; The Irrigation System Organization; Land Use System and the Farming Systems; Land Tenure and the systems of Production; Agricultural Labor; Agricultural Technology; Livestock Raising;
Chapter 12 Ethnic Stratification and Agricultural Intensification in the Ziz Oasis: Boserup and Agricultural Change; The Ecosystem Approach; Agricultural Intesification in the Ziz Oasis; Ethnic Cropping Systems; Ethnic Farming Systems; Does Ethnicity Matter in
Chapter 13 The Politics of Ethnicities and Community Making in the Ziz Oasis: Bourdieu, Marx, and Weber; The Past and Present of the Haratine; The Ziz Oasis Senses of Community Making
Chapter 14 Conclusions: The Political Ecology of the Ziz Oasis
Chapter 15 Glossary of Arabic and Berber Terms
Chapter 16 Bibliography
Chapter 17 Index
Chapter 18 Author Biographical Sketch

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