Abdellah Hammoudi (born in 1945) is a Moroccan anthropologist, ethnographer, and emeritus professor of anthropology at Princeton University.

Biography

Abdellah was born in Kalaat Sraghna in 1945.^[1] He received a bachelor's degree in philosophy from the Faculty of Letters at University of Mohammed V, and, at the same time, a degree in sociology from the Institute of Sociology.^[2] He obtained his doctorate from the Pantheon-Sorbonne University in 1977. From 1972 to 1989, he worked as a Professor at the Agronomic Institute of the Mohammed V University in Rabat. Before moving to the United States of America as a Faisal Visiting Professor for Anthropology at Princeton University in 1989, and he joined permanently faculty in 1991, a post which he held until his retirement on 1 July 2016 when he was given the title emeritus professor. He was the Founding Director and served for over ten years as Director of the University's Institute for the Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia.^[3][4][5][6]

Works

• La victime et ses masques: essai sur le sacrifice et la mascarade au Mahgreb. Paris: Editions du Seuil. 1988.
  • The Victim and Its Masks: An Essay on Sacrifice and Masquerade in the Maghreb. Translated by Wissing, Paula. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1993.

This book is about the practice of bujlood.

• Hammoudi, Abdellah; Schaar, Stuart, eds. (1995). Algeria's Impasse. Princeton, NJ: Center of International Studies, Princeton University.
• Master and Disciple: The Cultural Foundations of Moroccan Authoritarianism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1997. ISBN 9780226315270.
• Hammoudi, Abdellah; Leveau, Rémy, eds. (2002). Monarchies arabes: transitions et derives dynastiques. Paris: La Documentation Française.
• Une saison à la Mecque: récit de pélerinage. Paris: Editions du Seuil. 2005.
  • A Season in Mecca: Narrative of a Pilgrimage. Translated by Ghazaleh, Pascale. New York: Hill & Wang. 2006. ISBN 9780809076093.
• Borneman, John; Hammoudi, Abdellah, eds. (2009). Being there: the fieldwork encounter and the making of truth. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Awards

In 1998, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.^[7]

In 2005, he won the second Prize Lettre Ulysses Award for the "Art of Reportage", for his non-fiction work entitled Une saison à la Mecque: récit de pélerinage.^[8][9]

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