A Street in Marrakech

Elizabeth Warnock Fernea
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This is a reflexive account of an American woman and her family's unpredictable journey through the private and public worlds of a traditional Muslim city in the process of change. As a Western stranger in Marrakech, Fernea was met with suspicion and hostility. The story of the slow growth of trust and acceptance between the author and her Moroccan neighbors involves the reader in everyday activities, weddings, funerals, and women's rituals. Both the author and her friends are changed by the encounters that she describes. A Street in Marrakech is a crosscultural adventure, ethnographically sound, and written in an accessible style. Titles of related interest from Waveland Azoy, Game and Power in Afghanistan, Third Edition (ISBN 9781577667209); Brenneman, As Strong as the A Kurdish Cultural Journey, Second Edition ( 9781478629306); Jordan, The Making of a Modern Globalization and Change in Saudi Arabia (ISBN 9781577667025); and Omidian, When Bamboo Bloom (ISBN 9781577667001).
Genres: NonfictionMoroccoTravelMemoirAfricaAnthropologyMiddle EastCulturalHistoryBiography
382 Pages

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