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A Street in Marrakech

A Personal View of Urban Women in Morocco

Elizabeth Warnock Fernea

This is a reflexive account of an American woman and her family’s unpredictable journey through the private and public worlds of a traditional Muslim city in the process of change. As a Western stranger in Marrakech, Fernea was met with suspicion and hostility. The story of the slow growth of trust and acceptance between the author and her Moroccan neighbors involves the reader in everyday activities, weddings, funerals, and women’s rituals. Both the author and her friends are changed by the encounters that she describes. A Street in Marrakech is a crosscultural adventure, ethnographically sound, and written in an accessible style.
 

$24.95 list, 382 pages

10-digit ISBN: 0-88133-404-9

13-digit ISBN: 978-0-88133-404-3

© 1975

Table of Contents

1. The House on Rue Tresor

2. Djemaa el Fna: Myth and Magic

3. A Moroccan Education

4. The Street

5. Rooftops and Zankas

6. Return to Rue Tresor

7. Rabia’s Wedding

8. A Change in the Weather

9. The Feast

10. Fatima Henna’s House

11. A Way into the Medina

12. The Feast of Accession to the Sultan’s Throne

13. Spring Comes to Rue Tresor

14. Baraka

15. The Moussem of Moulay Ibrahim

16. Mul el Ksour and the Fortune Teller

17. Summer

18. Lalla Fadna Takes a Stand

19. Friendship on Rue Tresor

20. Dinner at Omar’s

21. Bslama