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Detours of life: space and bodies in a Moroccan village
Author(s) -
PANDOLFO STEFANIA
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
american ethnologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.875
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1548-1425
pISSN - 0094-0496
DOI - 10.1525/ae.1989.16.1.02a00010
Subject(s) - ambivalence , interpretation (philosophy) , representation (politics) , space (punctuation) , movement (music) , sociology , aesthetics , the symbolic , epistemology , history , gender studies , anthropology , linguistics , art , philosophy , law , political science , psychology , social psychology , psychoanalysis , politics
This essay is an interpretation of the internal logic of a way of imagining space, movement and the body in a village in pre‐Saharan Morocco. I begin with the analysis of an informant's graphic representation of his village and then spin its threads in terms of a local discourse of structural insufficiency and symbolic ambivalence, which I pursue ethnographically through a number of domains, while suggesting at the same time the contours of a dialogue with issues in European thought , [the body, space, movement, symbolism, poststructuralism, North Africa]