מעודכן ליום ראשון 21 באוגוסט 2005

0654.7210  שאיפות לאומיות של מיעוטים אתניים: המקרה של הברברים בצפון אפריקה
ד"ר ברוס מדי וייצמןסמינר
This course will analyze the rise of the Berber Culture Movement in North Africa and in the Berber Diaspora, and its social and political implications for Morocco and Algeria. Subjects to be explored by this study include: the evolving nature of Berber collective self-perception, in light of the community’s considerable diversity; efforts to, in the words of Bernard Lewis, to “remember, recover, and reinvent” Berber history; and the impact of the forces of modernization and globalization on Berber “imagining.” The study will also examine the respective policies of the Algerian and Moroccan regimes towards, and effects on Berbers and Berberism, against the background of the Berbers’ varying strategies throughout history of accommodation and resistance to regime policies. The combination of (a) increasingly popular movements “from below,” whether religious or ethnic; and (b) the failure of the state authorities to translate their preponderance of power into a durable, legitimate political system able to “deliver the goods” to their increasingly youthful, restive population, poses a fundamental challenge to social and political order in the Maghreb at the beginning of the 21st century.


Brett, Michael and Fentress, Elisabeth, The Berbers (Oxford: Blackwell, 1996).
Anderson, Benedict, Imagined Communities (London and NY: Verso, 1991).
Smith, Anthony D., The Ethnic Origin of Nations (Oxford: Blackwell, 1986).
Hobsbawm, Eric, and Ranger, Terrence, eds., The Invention of Tradition (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1983).
Hart, David, special issue of Journal of North African Studies, 4/2 (Summer 1999).
Gellner, Ernest, and Micaud, Charles, eds., Arabs and Berbers: From Tribe to Nation in North Africa (Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1972).
Bengio, Ofra and Ben-Dor, Gabriel, eds., "Minorities and the State in the Arab World," (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1999)
Maddy-Weitzman, Bruce, "Contested Identities: Berbers, 'Berberism' and the State in North Africa," Journal of North African Studies, Vol. 6, No. 3 (2001), pp. 23-47.
"Berber Sociolinguistics," International Journal of the Sociology of Language 123 (1997).
"Amazigh Voices: The Berber Question," special issue of Race, Gender and Class, Vol 8, No. 3 (2001).



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