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The Amazigh Culture and Identity

Problematic:

What are the Amazigh strategies adopted to affirm their cultural identity and gather national and international interests and draw large audience through globalization?


Axis 1: Amazighité: a Strong movement a Unique identity in Morocco (Glocalization)
1-         A Unique Language
2-         Unique traditions
3-         Challenges faced by such movement

Axis 2: Amazigh at a Global Scale (Globalization)
1)         Tamazagha, the land of Free-men
2)         Tafoukt: promoting Amazigh heritage through folktales, costumes…
3)         Amazigh-net

Axis 3: The Amazigh and the French Connection
1)         The French collaboration in a Riffi-play (French subtitiles…)
2)         France, a major supporter of the Amazigh Movement
3)         The Amazigh Demand for a separation between the state and religion (Modernization)

References:

Errihani, M. 2013. “The Amazigh Renaissance: Tamazight in the Time of Mohammed VI.” In Contemporary Morocco: State, Politics and Society Under Mohammed VI, edited by B. Maddy-Weitzman and D. Zisenwine, 57–69. New York: Routledge

Ennaji, M. 2010. Identité et diversité culturelle au Maroc, CMIESI.

Crawford, D., and K. Hoffman. 2000. “Essentially Amazigh: Urban Berbers and the Global Village.” In The Arab-African and Islamic Worlds: Interdisciplinary Studies, edited by Robert K. Lacey and Ralph M. Coury, 117–134. New York: Peter Lang.

Maddy-Weitzman, B. 2011. The Berber Identity Movement and the Challenge to North African States. Austin: University of Texas Press.


Boum, A. 2007. “Dancing for the Moroccan State: Ethnic Folk Dances and the Productions of National Hybridity.” In North African Mosaic: A Cultural Reappraisal of Ethnic and Religious Minorities, edited by Nabil Boudraa, 214–237. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Merolla, D. 2002. “Digital Imagination and the ‘Landscapes of Group Identities’: The Flourishing of Theatre, Video and ‘Amazigh Net’ in the Maghreb and Berber Diaspora.” The Journal of North African Studies 7 (4): 122–131. doi: 10.1080/13629380208718486

Merolla, D. 2005. “De la Parole aux Videos. Oralité, ecriture et oralité médiatique dans la production culturelle Amazigh (Berbere).” Afrika Focus 18 (1–2): 33–57.



Amiras, M. Z. 2011. “Amazighité, Arab/Islamic Hegemony, and the Christian Evangelical Challenge.” In Religion, Politics, and Globalization: Anthropological Approaches, edited by Galina Lindquist and Don Handelman, 209–230. Oxford: Berghahn Books.

Bajalia, G. 2014. “Language, Theatre & Morocco's February 20th Movement.” Muftah.


Errihani, M. 2013. “The Amazigh Renaissance: Tamazight in the Time of Mohammed VI.” In Contemporary Morocco: State, Politics and Society Under Mohammed VI, edited by B. Maddy-Weitzman and D. Zisenwine, 57–69. New York: Routledge.

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