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Women and Property in Morocco: Their Changing Relation to the Process of Social Stratification in the Middle Atlas

By Vanessa Maher

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1975
ISBN
0521205484, 9780511558078, 0521040418, 0511558074, 9780521040419, 9780521205481
LCC
HQ1816.M62 M3
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
2 MB (1597918 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
Pages
250\249
Topic
Education
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This is a study of the effects of 'modernization' on the social and economic world of women in Morocco. Vanessa Maher suggests that three systems of social stratification modify one another: a system of classes based on relation to the means of production; a system of estates, differentiated by inherited status; and a system of segmentary tribal groups, based on territorial rights. Although all Moroccans use all these systems on different occasions it is the women who, faced with their own exclusion from wage-earning, along with the instability of marriage and the inadequacy of most family incomes, respond by perpetually reconstituting the groups on which they must depend, those based on territorial rights and putative kinship. By observing these social networks, Maher has been able to identify part of what inhibits the development of class consciousness, and what favours a clientistic political structure.

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