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- Considers an under-explored community of Muslim Moroccans and their stewardship of Jewish spaces
- Examines the flow of material and spiritual capital across religious lines and Moroccan understanding of social, moral experience
- Brings together performance studies methodologies and ethnographies of experience in a single, cohesive study
Part of the book series: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion (CAR)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Exploring the roles of Muslim guards and guides in Jewish cemeteries in Morocco, Cory Thomas Pechan Driver suggests that these custodians use performances of ritual and caring acts for Jewish graves for multiple reasons. Imazighen [Berbers] stress their close ties with Jews in order to create a moral self intentionally set apart from the mono-ethically Arab and mono-religiously Muslim Morocco. Other subjects, and particularly women, use their ties with Jewish sites to harness power and prestige in their communities. Others still may care for these grave sites to express grief for a close Jewish friend or adoptive family. In examining these motives, Driver not only documents the flow of material and spiritual capital across religious lines, but also moves beyond Muslim memory of the past on the one hand and Jewish dread of the future on the other to think about the Muslim/Jewish present in Morocco.
Authors and Affiliations
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Council on International Educational Exchange, Rabat, USA
Cory Thomas Pechan Driver
About the author
Cory Thomas Pechan Driver is Professor at the Center for International Education Exchange, teaching on the intersection of gender, ethnicity, and religion in modern Morocco and the Maghreb region.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Muslim Custodians of Jewish Spaces in Morocco
Book Subtitle: Drinking the Milk of Trust
Authors: Cory Thomas Pechan Driver
Series Title: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78786-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-78785-5Published: 25 April 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07648-1Published: 20 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-78786-2Published: 16 April 2018
Series ISSN: 2946-3475
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3483
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 190
Number of Illustrations: 11 illustrations in colour
Topics: Ethnography, Social Anthropology, Sociology of Religion, Islam, Middle Eastern Culture