Institute Reading List

Assigned reading for the Institute will all be in English and are listed below for each unit.  Because many works, and particularly some of the classics on Berber culture, have been written in French some have been included below in the secondary reading lists.  All titles in the secondary reading lists will be placed on reserve at OSU’s Valley Library for exclusive use by the Institute participants.

UNIT ONE: The Berber World in Time and Space
Assigned Readings:
Brett, M. and Fentress, E. The Berbers: the peoples of Africa. Oxford: Blackwell, 1996.
Julien, Ch. André History of North Africa: Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, From the Arab Conquest to 1830; Trans. from the French by John Petrie. Ed. R. Le Tourneau. London: Routledge & K. Paul, 1970.

Secondary Readings:
Abou-Nassr, J.M. History of the Maghrib in the Islamic Period. Cambridge, 1987.
Agnaou, Fatima and Boukous, A. Alphabétisation et développement durable au Maroc : Réalités et perspectives. Rabat: Publications de la Faculté des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines, 2001.
Agnaou, Fatima Gender, Litearcy and Empowerment in Morocco. New York: Routeldge, 2004.
 ---. “Adult Literacy in Morocco: A Language Needs Analysis.” Plurilinguismes, Vol. 16, (1998): 89-117.
Basset, A. The Berber Language. London: I.A.I., 1969.
Bates, O. The Eastern Lybians, An Essay. London: Cass, 1914.
Boukous, Ahmed Langue et société au Maghreb. Rabat: Publications de la Faculté des Lettres, 1989.
---. Les sciences humaines et sociales au Maroc. Etudes et argument.s Rabat: Publications de l’Institut Universitaire de la recherche scientifique, 1999.
Bovill, E.W. The Golden Trade of the Moors. London, 1958.
Braund, D. Rome and the Friendly Kings. London, 1984.
Brett, M. “The Arab Conquests and the Rise of Islam in North Africa.” Cambridge History of Africa Vol. II, Ch. 8 (1978).
---. The Moors: Islam in the West. London, 1980.
Camps, G. “Beginnings of Pastoralism and Cultivation in Northwest Africa and the Sahara: Origins of the Berbers.” Cambridge History of Africa Vol. 1 (1982): 548-612.
Camps, Gabriel Les Berbères: mémoire et identité. Paris: Errance, 2002.
Collins, R. The Arab Conquest of Spain. Oxford (1989): 710-97.
Cribb, R. Nomads in Archeology. Cambridge, 1991.
Fisher, Sir G. Barbary Legend: War, Trade and Piracy in North Africa, 1415-1830. Oxford, 1957.
Gsell, S. Histoire ancienne de l’Afrique du Nord. Paris: Hachette, 1929.
Herndon, David "Morocco: Freewheeling With the Berbers in the Atlas and Sahara." National Geographic Adventure (July/August 2000): 78-83.
Keohane, Alan The Berbers of Morocco. London:Hamish Hamilton, 1991.
Maxwell, Gavin Lords of the Atlas: The Rise and Fall of the House of Glaoua 1893-1956. New York: Hippocrene Books, 1984.
McGuinnes, Justin Marrakech and the High Atlas Handbook. Bath: Footprint Handbooks, 2001.
Montagne, Robert The Berbers. Trans. by D. Seddon. London: Frank Cass, 1973.
Pennel, C. R. Morocco Since 1830. New York: New York University Press, 2000.
Shatzmiller, Maya The Berbers and the Islamic State. Princeton: Markus Wiener Publishers, 2000.

UNIT TWO: Scholarly Approaches to Berber Studies
Assigned Reading:
Gellner, Ernest and Micaud, Charles, Eds. Arabs and Berbers: from tribe to nation in North Africa. Lexington: Lexington Books, 1972.

Secondary Readings:
Berque, Jacques Structures sociales du Haut-Atlas. 1955. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1978
Bourdieu, Pierre. Algeria 1960: The Disenchantment of the World; The Sense of Honor; The Kabyle House or The World Reversed: Essays. Trans. by Richard Nice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979.
Brett, M. “Ibn Khaldun and the Arabization of North Africa.” Maghreb Review 4 (1979): 9-16.
Crawford, David and Silverstein, Paul “Amazigh Activism and the Moroccan State” The Middle East Report ed. Chris Toensing #233 (2004): 44-48.
Crawford, David “Arranging the Bones: Culture, Time and In/equality in Berber Labor Organization.” Ethnos 68 (4) (2003): 463-486.
---. “How ‘Berber’ Matters in the Middle of Nowhere” The Middle East Report ed. Chris Toensing #219 (2001): 22-25.
---. “The Intellectural Economy of an Anthropology of Change.” Anthropology in Action Vol. 9, No. 1 (2002): 3-12.
---. “Morocco’s Invisible Imazighen.” The Journal of North African Studies Vol. 7, No. 1 (2002): 53-70.
---.  “Royal Interest in Local Culture: The Politics and Potential of Morocco’s Imazighen.” Nationalism and Minority Identities in Islamic Societies. ed. Maya Shatzmiller. (2005): 164-194.
Frobenius, Leo African Genesis. New York: B. Blom, 1966.
Gellner, Ernest Saints of the Atlas. London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1969.
---. “Reply to Critics.” The Social philosophy of Ernest Gellner. Eds. J. A. Hall and I. C. Jarvie. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1996.
Hammoudi, Abdellah, Master and Disciple: The Cultural Foundations of Moroccan Authoritarianism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997.
Khaldun, Ibn, Histoire des Berbères. Trans. by De Slane. Paris, 1890.
Lahouari, Addi, L'anthropologie du Maghreb selon Berque, Bourdieu, Geertz et Gellner Paris: Awal/Ibis, 2003.
McDougall, James,Nation, Society and Culture in North Africa.Portland: Frank Cass, 2003.
Silverstein, Paul, Algeria in France Bloomington: Indianna University Press, 2004.
Yacine, Tassadit Chacal ou la ruse des dominés. Aux origines du malaise des intellectuels algériens. Paris: La Découverte, 2001.
---. “L’enjeu de la revendication linguistique en Algérie.”  Comprendre la crise (1996): 155-166.
---. Les Voleurs de feu. Éléments d’une anthropologie sociale et culturelle de l’Algérie. Paris: La Découverte, 1993.
---. “Mouloud Mammeri and Cultural Pluralism.” Awal No. 18 (1988): 153-161
---. “Women, Their Space and Creativity in Berber Society.” Race, Gender, & Class Vol. 8 No. 3: 102‑113.

UNIT THREE: Expressions of Berber Culture
Assigned Readings:
Armes, Roy Postcolonial Images: Studies in North African Film. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005.
Charibi, Driss Flutes of Death Washington DC: Three Continents Press, 1985.
d'Ucel, Jeanne Berber Art: An Introduction.Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1932.
Merolla, Daniela and Salhi, Kamal “Discourse and identification in Franco-Berber Writing.” Francophone Studies, Discourse and Idenity. ed. Kamal Salhi. Exeter: Elm Bank Productions, 2000.

Secondary Readings:
Benco, N. The Early Midieval Pottery Industry at al-Basra. Morocco: BAR International 341, 1987.
Berque, Augustin Art antique et art musulman en Algérie. Alger: Comité national métropolitain du centenaire de l'Algérie, 1930.
Bidwell, R. Morocco Under Colonial Rule. London, 1973
Brahimi, Denise Cinémas d’Afrique francophone et du Maghreb Paris: Nathan, 1997.
Eudel, Paul Dictionnaire de bijoux de l’Afrique du Nord. Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1906.
Galand, L. Langue et littérature berbère. Paris: CNRS, 1979.
Gellner, E. Saints of the Atlas. London, 1969.
Horne, A. A savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962. London, 1987.
Khaldun, Ibn The Muqquadima, An Introduction to History. 1958. Trans. F. Rosenthal. Princeton: London, 1986.
Norris, H.T. The Berbers in Arabic Literature. Beirut: Librairie du Liban, 1982.
Rabate, M. R. & Goldenberg, A. Bijoux du Maroc. Paris: Edition Eddif, 1999.
Rosello, Mireille France and the Maghreb: Performative Encounters. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2005.
Salhi, Kamal  “Discourse and Identification in Franco-Berber Writing.” Francophone Studies: Discourse and Identity (2000): 121-145.
---. Francophone Studies: Discourse and Identity. Exeter: Elm Bank Publications, 2000.
---. Francophone Post-colonial Cultures. New York, Oxford, Lanham : Lexington Books – Rowman & Littlefield, 2003.
---. French In and Out of France. Language Policies, Intercultural Antagonisms and Dialogue. Oxford / Bern / New York: Peter Lang, 2002.
---.  “French Words, Authentic Voices.” Francophone Voices (1999): 27-48.

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