In North Africa, and in the Arab world in general, the family is the basic unit of social organization and socioeconomic activities. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a wave of nationalism and a rebirth of Islamic intellectual reflection invested the Arab world and, indirectly, the whole Maghreb area. Within the Maghreb, I choose to focus on the Mzab in southern of Algeria in order to understand the changes in family life and organisation, and other transformations concerning the everyday life of Mzabi women during the period of Nahḍa, as well as changes in the production and transmission of culture in the Mzab. The purpose of this study is to examine and understand the participation of Mzabi women in social processes, especially the changes in women’s education. This paper starts with an outline survey of the social structure and kinship specificities of North Africa, followed by a brief overview of some aspects of how Mzabi fought the colonial regime without assimilating and without delegitimizing traditional social structures.

Family in Maghreb. The case of Mzabi Society in the Nahḍa Period.

Di Tolla Anna, Maria
2018-01-01

Abstract

In North Africa, and in the Arab world in general, the family is the basic unit of social organization and socioeconomic activities. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a wave of nationalism and a rebirth of Islamic intellectual reflection invested the Arab world and, indirectly, the whole Maghreb area. Within the Maghreb, I choose to focus on the Mzab in southern of Algeria in order to understand the changes in family life and organisation, and other transformations concerning the everyday life of Mzabi women during the period of Nahḍa, as well as changes in the production and transmission of culture in the Mzab. The purpose of this study is to examine and understand the participation of Mzabi women in social processes, especially the changes in women’s education. This paper starts with an outline survey of the social structure and kinship specificities of North Africa, followed by a brief overview of some aspects of how Mzabi fought the colonial regime without assimilating and without delegitimizing traditional social structures.
2018
9783487155494
File in questo prodotto:
File Dimensione Formato  
Family_IBADI_vol12-merged.pdf

accesso aperto

Descrizione: Family in the Maghrib: Mzab
Tipologia: Documento in Post-print
Licenza: PUBBLICO - Pubblico con Copyright
Dimensione 10.9 MB
Formato Adobe PDF
10.9 MB Adobe PDF Visualizza/Apri

I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.

Utilizza questo identificativo per citare o creare un link a questo documento: https://hdl.handle.net/11574/184475
Citazioni
  • ???jsp.display-item.citation.pmc??? ND
social impact