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Women and property in Morocco : their changing relation to the process of social stratification in the Middle Atlas

Title
  1. Women and property in Morocco : their changing relation to the process of social stratification in the Middle Atlas / Vanessa Maher.
Published by
  1. London ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1974.
Author
  1. Maher, Vanessa.

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Description
  1. xii, 238 pages; 24 cm
Summary
  1. 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.
Series statement
  1. Cambridge studies in social anthropology ; 10
Uniform title
  1. Cambridge studies in social anthropology ; 10.
Subject
  1. Börngen, ..
  2. Women > Morocco > Social conditions
  3. Sex role > Morocco
  4. Man-woman relationships > Morocco
  5. Marriage > Morocco
  6. Man-woman relationships
  7. Marriage
  8. Sex role
  9. Social conditions
  10. Women > Social conditions
  11. Frau
  12. Vrouwen
  13. Bezit
  14. Sociale stratificatie
  15. social research
  16. social role
  17. women
  18. married women
  19. social structure
  20. social stratification
  21. field study
  22. urban area
  23. village
  24. traditional culture
  25. statistical table
  26. Status of women > Morocco
  27. Social organization > Morocco
  28. Rural conditions > Morocco
  29. Women > Morocco
  30. Femmes > Maroc > Moyen Atlas (Maroc) > Conditions sociales
  31. Mariage > Maroc
  32. recherche sociale
  33. rôle social
  34. femmes
  35. femmes mariées
  36. structure sociale
  37. stratification sociale
  38. étude sur le terrain
  39. zone urbaine
  40. culture traditionnelle
  41. tableau statistique
  42. investigación sociológica
  43. papel social
  44. mujeres
  45. mujeres casadas
  46. estructura social
  47. estratificación social
  48. estudio sobre el terreno
  49. zona urbana
  50. pueblo
  51. cultura tradicional
  52. cuadros estadísticos
  53. Morocco > Social conditions
  54. Morocco
  55. Marokko
  56. Morocco
  57. Morocco > Social life and customs
  58. Maroc > Conditions sociales
  59. Maroc
  60. Marruecos
Genre/Form
  1. bibliography.
  2. map.
  3. bibliographie.
  4. carte géographique.
  5. bibliografía.
  6. mapa.
Contents
  1. Introduction ---- 1. The background --- 2. Estates, tribal groups and the market today --- 3. Patron-client relations --- 4. How it looks on the ground --- 5. The cultural corollary: education and social stratification --- 6. Religion and social stratification --- 7. Conjugal roles, kinship roles and the division of labour --- 8. Relationships among women --- 9. Fostering --- 10. Marriage --- 11. Marriage and the market --- 12. The position of the bride after marriage --- 13. Divorce and property ---- Conclusions.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Note
  1. Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Bibliography: p. 229-233.