Negotiating Honour and Shame in the Contemporary Moroccan Rif

A Review of Concepts and Literature

Author: Crivello, Gina

Source: Anthropology of the Middle East, Volume 3, Number 2, Autumn 2008 , pp. 38-56(19)

Publisher: Berghahn Journals

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Abstract:

In this article I review concepts related to honour and shame and explore how these are understood within the context of the contemporary Moroccan Rif, a Berber-speaking region that is characterised by outsiders as closed and 'conservative', despite its long-established history of out-migration and transnational ties to Europe. The article argues that despite many changes to the political, economic and social landscapes of the Rif, understandings of honour and shame continue to shape gender hierarchies among Riffian Moroccans. As part of a broader system in which individuals negotiate status and respectability, honour and shame mediate relationships between individuals, families and 'honour groups' or moral communities in which they participate.

Keywords: BERBER; GENDER; HONOUR AND SHAME; MEDITERRANEAN; MOROCCO

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.3167/ame.2008.030204

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