With misgivings about the credibility of his own discipline and responding to the interests of Moroccans, Dwyer moves away from the usual anthropological perspectives of either secure scientific detachment or narrow subjectivity toward a dialogue-based approach. First providing a background to life in a southern Moroccan village, Dwyer then moves quickly to his encounters with ...(展开全部)

Tuhami is an illiterate Moroccan tilemaker who believes himself married to a camel-footed she-demon. A master of magic and a superb story-teller, Tuhami lives in a dank, windowless hovel near the kiln where he works. Nightly he suffers visitations from the demons and saints who haunt his life, and he seeks, with crippling ambivalence, liberation from 'A'isha Qandisha, the she-d...(展开全部)

法蒂玛·梅尔尼斯1940年出生于摩洛哥的精神首都非斯。少年时代进入摩洛哥首批男女生混合的私立学校学习，后留学法国和美国，继而成为拉巴特穆罕默德五世大学科学研究院教授、联合国大学委员会成员。《禁苑·梦》是梅尔尼斯撰写的第一部文学作品，1994年在纽约出版后反响强烈。