Morocco: Masquerade Politics: Race, Islam And The Scale Of Amazigh Activism In Southeastern Morocco

Morocco: Masquerade Politics: Race, Islam And The Scale Of Amazigh Activism In Southeastern Morocco Paul Silverstein, 2011   This article explores the different scalar dimensions of Berber masquerades in southeastern Morocco. By ritually performing Jewish characters and demonstrating philo-Semitic nostalgia for a former Jewish presence, Berber (Amazigh) activists simultaneously engage different audiences at a local, national and transnational scale. In the first place, they assert...

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