Purity and contamination: Language ideologies in French colonial native policy in Morocco

Comparative Studies in Society and History

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 724-752

  Hoffman, Katherine E ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHNICITY; LANGUAGE; MILITARY GOVERNMENT; POLICY MAKING;

AFRICA; MOROCCO; NORTH AFRICA;

EID: 46649097265     PISSN: 00104175     EISSN: 14752999     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0010417508000315     Document Type: Article

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