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The Ait Ayash of the High Moulouya Plain: Rural Social Organization in Morocco
John Chiapuris
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Author John Chiapuris lived in Morocco for sixteen months while doing fieldwork with the Ait Ayash, a Berber-speaking community of irrigation agriculturalists occupying the Ansegmir Valley in the High Moulouya plain. In the first part of this study, Chiapuris explains the ethnohistorial background and sociopolitical organization of the Ait Ayash. In the second section, he focuses on the regional setting and the changes initiated by the French Protectorate in 1912. In the third, he analyzes domestic production, household organization, and marriage patterns in the contemporary period.
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Contents
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List of Figures
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List of Maps
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List of Plates
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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I. The Ethnohistorical Background
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II. Socio-Political Organization: the Traditional Period
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III. Regional Ecology and Local Groups
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IV. The Protectorate Period
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V. The Contemporary Period: Government and the Village Economy
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VI. Domestic Organization: Households, Marriage, and Property
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VII. Conclusion
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Bibliography
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Glossary of Terms
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Plates
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Published: 1979
Publisher: University of Michigan Museum of Anthropological Archaeology
- 978-0-932206-83-1 (paper)
- 978-1-951519-02-5 (ebook)