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Publications by Deborah Anne Kapchan

Books

In progress Traveling Spirit Masters: Sound, Image and Word in the Global Marketplace. Prospectus submitted 2002

In progress Poetic Justice: Translating Art and Ideology in Morocco. University of Texas Press (2004).

1996 Gender on the Market: Moroccan Women and the Revoicing of Tradition. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Edited Volumes

1999 Theorizing the Hybrid, special issue of Journal of American Folklore.Kapchan, Deborah, and Pauline Turner Strong, eds.

Articles in Refereed Journals

in progressSlumming: Club Culture and Social Refuge in Central Texas (article).

2003 Translating the Gesture of Language: Absence and Presence in the Architecture of the Poem. Anthropology News March.

2002 Possessing Gnawa Culture: Displaying Sound, Creating History in an Unofficial Museum. Music and Anthropology (December 2002).

2000 Zajal. In Mediterraneans 11 (Winter 1990-2000): 45-47.

1999 Theorizing the Hybrid: Introduction. special issue Journal of American Folklore. Kapchan, Deborah and Pauline Turner Strong, eds.

1998 La Citation dans le Discours d'une Herboriste au Marché Maghrebin. Edition sur Mimesis et Médiations, Traverser les Mondes, sous la direction de S. Ossman. Hermès, no. 22.

1996 Performance. Journal of American Folklore 108 (430) 479-508.

1995 Hybrid Genres, Performing Subjectivities. Women and Performance Quarterly: A Journal of Feminist Theory. Issue #14.

1994 Moroccan Women Performers Defining the Social Body. Journal of American Folklore.

1993 Hybridization and the Marketplace: Emerging Paradigms in Folkloristics. Western Folklore.

Chapters in Books, Conference Proceedings

in press Translating Folk Theories of Translation. In, Translating Culture, edited by Paula Rubel and Abraham Rosman. Berg Publishers.

in press Nashat: The Gender of Musical Celebration in Morocco. In Music and Gender: Perspectives from the Mediterranean, edited by Tullia Magrini, Series "Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology", Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

in press Performance. In Feintuch, Burt, ed. Common Ground: Keywords for the Study of Expressive Culture. Champaign-Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

2001 Performing Depth: Translating Moroccan Culture in Modern Verse. In, Colors of Enchantment: Visual and Performing Arts of the Middle East, edited by Sherifa Zuhur, Cairo: American University in Cairo Press.

2001 Gender on the Market in Moroccan Women's Verbal Art: Performative Spheres of Authority. In Linda Seligmann, ed. Market Women in Cross-Cultural Perspective. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

2000 Following the Entranced Ones: Gnawa Performances and Trance in Rabat. Garland Encyclopedia of Middle Eastern Folklore. Garland Publishers.

2000 Le Marché de Transe: Le Cas des Gnaoua Marocains. In La Transe, edited by Abdelhafid Chlyeh. Rabat: Marsam, pp. 157-168.

1998 Stories about a Moroccan Storyteller. In Margaret Read MacDonald, ed. Traditional Storytelling Today: An International Sourcebook. London/Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Inc.

1998 Exchanging Lies: Divining Intention in Marketplace Language. Proceedings of the Symposium about Language and Society at Austin. Austin, Texas. Republished with changes as Exchanging Lies and Creating Truths: Intentionality in Moroccan Marketplace Performance, in Gunter Bergaus, ed. Tubingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag Publishers.

1997 Tradition and Transgression in Moroccan Women's Marketplace Oratory. In R. Bekkar, C. David and H. Davis, Eds. Espaces Publics et Paroles Publiques Dans Les Villes Arabes. Paris: Harmattan.

1996 Subtle Subversions: Towards a Notion of "Feminine Speaking" in Moroccan Cultural Expression. In D. Ouaouicha, ed., Women and Writing. Meknes: Faculté des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines.

1993 Moroccan Women's Body Signs. In Katharine Young, Ed. Bodylore, Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.

Reviews

1998 Elizabeth Fernea. In Search of Moroccan Feminism: One Women's Journey. NY: Bantam. Austin American Statesman. April 26, 1998.

1998 John Maier. Desert Songs: Western Images of Morocco and Moroccan Images of the West. SUNY Series, The Margins of Literature, Mihai I. Spariosu, editor. Albany: State University of New York Press. Middle East Studies Bulletin.

1996 Nancy du Plessis. Notes from a Moroccan Journal. Middle East Studies Bulletin. Vol. 30 (2):234.

1995 Marjo Buitelaar. Feasting and Fasting In Morocco: Women's Participation in Ramadan. British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies

1993 Henry Munson, Jr. The House of Si Abd Allah: The Oral History of a Moroccan Family. International Journal for Middle Eastern Studies

1992 Sabra J. Webber. Romancing the Real: Folklore and Ethnographic Representation in North Africa. Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 105, #417.

1991 Steve C. Caton. "Peaks of Yemen I Summon": Poetry as Cultural Practice in a North Yemeni Tribe. In Middle East and South Asia Folklore Newsletter, April.