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Like many indigenous groups that have endured centuries of subordination, the Berber/Amazigh peoples of North Africa are demanding linguistic and cultural recognition and the redressing of injustices. Indeed, the movement seeks nothing less than a refashioning of the identity of North African states, a rewriting of their history, and a fundamental change in the basis of collective life. In so doing, it poses a challenge to the existing political and sociocultural orders in Morocco and Algeria, while serving as an important counterpoint to the oppositionist Islamist current. This is the first book-length study to analyze the rise of the modern ethnocultural Berber/Amazigh movement in North Africa and the Berber diaspora. Bruce Maddy-Weitzman begins by tracing North African history from the perspective of its indigenous Berber inhabitants and their interactions with more powerful societies, from Hellenic and Roman times, through a millennium of Islam, to the era of Western colonialism. He then concentrates on the marginalization and eventual reemergence of the Berber question in independent Algeria and Morocco, against a background of the growing crisis of regime legitimacy in each country. His investigation illuminates many issues, including the fashioning of official national narratives and policies aimed at subordinating Berbers in an Arab nationalist and Islamic-centered universe; the emergence of a counter-movement promoting an expansive Berber "imagining" that emphasizes the rights of minority groups and indigenous peoples; and the international aspects of modern Berberism.

Berbers --- Nationalism --- Ethnic identity. --- Politics and government. --- Morocco --- Algeria

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Présentation La revue "Etudes et Documents Berbères" est éditée par La Boîte à Documents, est ouverte à la communication scientifique, berbérisante ou non et est placée sous l'égide de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme Paris Nord. Cette page dédiée à la revue Études et Documents Berbères va se développer au cours des années 2022 et 2023. À l’origine, c’est grâce au soutien du Centre national du Livre (CNL) que les volumes 27 à 42 correspondant aux années 2008 à 2019 ont pu trouver leur place sur cette plateforme. Outre la mise en place des résumés pour tous les articles de la revue ainsi que leur traduction, un travail de rétroconversion des fichiers et leur mise en ligne sont envisagés.

Berbers --- Berbers. --- Berbertalen. --- Amazigh --- Imazighan --- Imazighen --- Mazigh --- North Africans --- Berber languages --- Langues berbères --- Berbères --- Periodicals. --- Périodiques. --- Libyan languages --- Afroasiatic languages --- Berber languages.

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To the world they are known as Berbers, but they prefer to call themselves Imazighen, or "free people." The claim to this unique cultural identity has been felt most acutely in Algeria in the Kabylia region, where an Amazigh consciousness gradually emerged after WWII. This is a valuable model for other Amazigh movements in North Africa, where the existence of an Amazigh language and culture is denied or dismissed in countries such as Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya. By tracing the cultural production of the Kabyle people-their songs, oral traditions, and literature-from the early 1930's

Kabyles --- Kabyle literature --- Social life and customs --- Ethnic identity. --- History and criticism. --- Kabail --- Berbers --- Ethnology

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Les Ghoujdama, tribu du Haut Atlas, par leur ancrage dans l'histoire et leur capacité d'adaptation au monde moderne constituent un cas exemplaire pour comprendre le Maroc et par-delà le monde rural maghrébin. Par une étude historique solide, l'auteur nous montre les Ghoujdama à l'aube du xxe siècle, sous la double domination du Glaoui et du Protectorat et depuis l'indépendance. Grâce à la connaissance intime de ce milieu dont il est issu, ALI AMAHAN, dans le sillage de Robert Montagne, Jacques Berque, Paul Pascon, Pierre Bourdieu, aborde avec acuité, justesse et authenticité l'analyse des mutations sociales chez les Ghoujdama. Il révèle les mécanismes enfouis dans les structures sociales et mentales, dévoile la dynamique spécifique qui incite au changement mais aussi à la résistance, et montre que la confrontation entre changement et permanence n'est en fait que la juxtaposition de deux systèmes, l'un moderne et puissant, l'autre traditionnel et ancestral. Ces systèmes se complètent et ne s'opposent que rarement ; ils s'appuient mutuellement l'un sur l'autre pour perdurer et évoluer.

Berbers --- Berbères --- Social conditions --- Social life and customs --- Conditions sociales --- Moeurs et coutumes --- High Atlas Mountains (Morocco) --- Haut Atlas (Maroc) --- Social conditions. --- Amazigh --- Imazighan --- Imazighen --- Mazigh --- North Africans --- Ghoujdama --- Haut-Atlas --- Berbère --- XXème siècle --- tribu --- Maroc --- coutumes