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In The Mobile Phone Revolution in Morocco, Hsain Ilahiane examines how Moroccans use the mobile phone to redefine core notions of gender and space, honor and shame, placemaking, and surveillance and control. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork with urban street vendors, urban micro-entrepreneurs, urban female domestic workers, and smallholder farmers in urban and rural Morocco, Ilahiane illustrates how the mobile phone has the endowed capacity to inform, rearrange, and transform almost every aspect of Moroccan society.
Hsain Ilahiane is professor of anthropology and head of the Department of Anthropology and Middle Eastern Cultures at Mississippi State University.
Introduction The Mobile Phone is the Total Social Artifact Chapter 1Street Vendors: The Mobile Phone is a Cleaner Occupation Chapter 2 Urban Micro-Entrepreneurs: The Mobile Phone is the Sixth Pillar of Islam Chapter 3Female Domestic Workers: The Mobile Phone is like a Saint Chapter 4Smallholder Farmers: The Mobile Phone is neither a Snowmobile nor a Truck Chapter 5The Makings of Shame, Gender, and Place: The Mobile Phone is Satan Number 71 Conclusion
