Degree Year
1997
Document Type
Thesis - Open Access
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Anthropology
Advisor(s)
Jack Glazier
Keywords
Amazight, Morocco, Ethnic identity, Culture
Abstract
This study will demonstrate that the Amazight are a distinct ethnic group in Morocco, despite the common interpretation in scholarly and everyday discourse that they are merely groups of people speaking one of the Amazight language and not representing a distinct cultural entity. The study will go on to examine the ramifications of this ethnic identity and the heritage of the historical and tribal roots of the Amazight in light of nationalism, state building, ethnicity, and cultural marginalization.
Repository Citation
Boyd, Morag E., "Amazight Identity in the Post Colonial Moroccan State: A Case Study in Ethnicity" (1997). Honors Papers. 522.
https://digitalcommons.oberlin.edu/honors/522