45 min
The Seduction of Morocco in American Anthropology Moroccan/American
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Students of Morocco, particularly those with experience in the American academy, are often struck by the volume of anthropological research conducted in Moroccan towns, cities, villages, and tribes. The 1960s witnessed an explosion of ethnographic interest in Morocco, spearheaded by Clifford and Hildred Geertz but certainly shaped by a longer trajectory of ethnographic work on Morocco. It prompts the question: why Morocco? What brought all these American researchers there? Paul Silverstein, Professor of Anthropology at Reed College, joins the podcast and helps us to unpack the complex this complex history while suggesting a handful of political and cultural factors for why there's so much groundbreaking ethnographic research based on fieldwork in Morocco.
Students of Morocco, particularly those with experience in the American academy, are often struck by the volume of anthropological research conducted in Moroccan towns, cities, villages, and tribes. The 1960s witnessed an explosion of ethnographic interest in Morocco, spearheaded by Clifford and Hildred Geertz but certainly shaped by a longer trajectory of ethnographic work on Morocco. It prompts the question: why Morocco? What brought all these American researchers there? Paul Silverstein, Professor of Anthropology at Reed College, joins the podcast and helps us to unpack the complex this complex history while suggesting a handful of political and cultural factors for why there's so much groundbreaking ethnographic research based on fieldwork in Morocco.
45 min