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Remembering the Tatas
Domestic Women and Slavery in Tetouan (19th - 20th centuries)
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This book sheds light on the final process of slavery in Morocco, unraveling the contemporary roots of servility and stereotypes about blackness in the Arab world. Unlike other generalist analyses, this research focuses on the practice of servitude through a case study in the city of Tetouan. Until well into the twentieth century, bought women arrived in the city to join the domestic labor market, also becoming signs of social distinction. This historical ethnography is paradigmatic in reconstructing the relations between masters and domestics of slave origin, putting names and faces to subaltern people to rescue them from oblivion.
Josep Lluís Mateo Dieste, Ph.D. (2002), European University Institute, Florence, is Associate Professor at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. He has published monographs and articles on Morocco, including Health and Ritual in Morocco (Brill, 2013).
Academic and Research institutions, specialists, students and intervention professionals interested in the History of Slavery, Contemporary Muslim and Middle Eastern Studies, and Cultural and Social Anthropology.