Channeling Moroccanness by Becky L. Schulthies

Author:Becky L. Schulthies [Schulthies, Becky L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Anthropology, Cultural & Social, Religion, Islam, Rituals & Practice, Language Arts & Disciplines, Linguistics, Sociolinguistics
ISBN: 9780823289745
Google: jykGEAAAQBAJ
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 2020-12-01T05:17:07+00:00

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From the majority of these encounters and conversations, I identified little recognition that television producers were altering proverb content and folktales to convey gender values the educated producers believed were necessary for an informed and enlightened citizenry, despite an increased number of regional radio programs devoted to explicating and discussing the meaning of Moroccan proverbs in 2012–14.15 However, that did not mean that the intentions of producers utilizing hadra lmizān in their programming to convey “modernist” Moroccan values were entirely missing their mark. Their message resonated with those who shared the same Moroccanness vision. One evening as I sat eating dinner in the home of a successful Fassi businessman and his family, the discussion turned to ḥadīdān and how much this man, his mother-in-law, and ten-year-old son enjoyed the programming. This family self-aligned with a cosmopolitan, educated Islam. The wife was training to be a state-sponsored female religious guide (مرشيدة [mūršīda]). They collaboratively constructed a happy response that these programs discouraged folk magic at the same time as valorizing their traditional past. They didn’t mention gender or disability equity in relation to the program at all.

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