TY - JOUR
T1 - Sources for the Socio-economic study of rural Morocco
AU - Ilahiane, Hsaïn
AU - Park, Thomas K.
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 2001
Y1 - 2001
N2 - This paper explores the utility of 19th- and 20th-century taxation and court records as tools for mapping the changing social topography of rural Morocco. Little serious work has been done with such records to date, and it is hoped that this paper will encourage more researchers to use this material. As a subset of the Moroccan official record, legal and tax records obviously have an epistemological character differing from that of private correspondence and even other administrative records. Yet in the post-modern era, it is obvious that this cannot be simply reduced to the official record providing us with truth while private correspondence is a mixture of fiction and possible truth. All sources need to be scrutinized both in the traditional ways of the historian and, more generally, as reflecting social forces conceived broadly.
AB - This paper explores the utility of 19th- and 20th-century taxation and court records as tools for mapping the changing social topography of rural Morocco. Little serious work has been done with such records to date, and it is hoped that this paper will encourage more researchers to use this material. As a subset of the Moroccan official record, legal and tax records obviously have an epistemological character differing from that of private correspondence and even other administrative records. Yet in the post-modern era, it is obvious that this cannot be simply reduced to the official record providing us with truth while private correspondence is a mixture of fiction and possible truth. All sources need to be scrutinized both in the traditional ways of the historian and, more generally, as reflecting social forces conceived broadly.
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U2 - 10.1017/s0020743801002057
DO - 10.1017/s0020743801002057
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0034986414
VL - 33
SP - 271
EP - 290
JO - International Journal of Middle East Studies
JF - International Journal of Middle East Studies
SN - 0020-7438
IS - 2
ER -