Winner of the Best Book of 2008 from The International Gender and Language Association

In this ground-breaking ethnography of girls on a playground, Goodwin offers a window into their complex social worlds.

• Combats stereotypes that have dominated theories on female moral development by challenging the notion that girls are inherently supportive of each other
• Examines the stances that girls on a playground in a multicultural school setting assume and shows how they position themselves in their peer groups
• Documents the language practices and degradation...

We Share Walls: Language, Land, and Gender in Berber Morocco explores how political economic shifts over the last century have reshaped the language practices and ideologies of women (and men) in the plains and mountains of rural Morocco.

• Offers a unique and richly textured ethnography of language maintenance and shift as well as language and place-making among an overlooked Muslim group
• Examines how Moroccan Berbers use language to integrate into the Arab-speaking world and retain their own distinct identity
• Illuminates the intriguing semiotic and...

We Share Walls: Language, Land, and Gender in Berber Morocco explores how political economic shifts over the last century have reshaped the language practices and ideologies of women (and men) in the plains and mountains of rural Morocco.

• Offers a unique and richly textured ethnography of language maintenance and shift as well as language and place-making among an overlooked Muslim group
• Examines how Moroccan Berbers use language to integrate into the Arab-speaking world and retain their own distinct identity
• Illuminates the intriguing semiotic and...

Foundations of Anthropological Theory presents a selection of key texts that reflect the broad range of anthropological thought on human behavior, from Herodotus and Ibn Battuta to Adam Smith and Adam Ferguson.

• Enables the reader to situate the modern discipline of anthropology within the larger context of intellectual history
• Features key texts from the ancient and medieval worlds through to the Enlightenment
• Considers the presumptive rights of Europeans to judge the inherent moral worth of non-Western civilizations
• Provides fascinating insights...