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Sharifian Letters: Conducting Archaeology in Pre-Protectorate Morocco (1884-1891) (2024)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Said Ennahid. Néjat Brahmi.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. One of the recurrent themes of French colonial-period discourse on conducting archaeology in Morocco was the belief that the state and the people had little or no interest in their pre-Islamic past or its material correlates. To explore and deconstruct this theme, we will examine a set of never-before-published archives consisting of 8 firmans (also...