MELLEM CHIC AGO OG OUJDA: To perspektiver på marokkansk social struktur

Resumé

Marc Schade-Poulsen: Between Chicago

and Oujda. Two Perspectives on

Moroccan Social Structure

This article deals with American anthropologists’

descriptions of Moroccan social

structure in the 1960s and 1970s: Eickelman,

Geertz, Rabinow, Rosen, and Crapanzano.

Thirty years later during a field trip to Oujda,

North Eastem Morocco, the author found

similar descriptions of Moroccan social

structure as expressed by young, male candidates

for migration to Europe. The article

describes the changes that have occurred in

Morocco during the last thirty years. It

compares the early American anthropological

point of view with the more recent

Moroccan one. It concludes that if the early

American “school” had been less inclined to

interpretive, symbolic approaches to

Moroccan society, and more eager to listen

to individual Morrocans’ hopes for their

future, it would not have been so easy to

describe Morocco as a "bargaining society”.

Rather, it would have included an analysis of

Moroccan power relations that are being

challenged by today’s globalisation.