Abstract
Long-term research in a community of immigrants from the Atlas Mountains revealed the reluctance of farmers to allow their youth to share in the village resources or let their own children stay on with them in a father-son farm partnership. The apparent banishment of the young, and the breakdown of the Moroccan pattern of household composition, has been interpreted as a manifestation of the conflict between a cultural ethos and new environmental constraints. The paper introduces some methodological queries and the ethnographic intricacies involved in community studies when deciphering processes of transformation, the reshaping of institutions, and the modification of values. -Author
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 76-89 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| Journal | Anthropological Quarterly |
| Volume | 63 |
| Issue number | 2 |
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| State | Published - 1990 |