@article{5c9a10b9f7a94d4a95b9826383155dce,
title = "The plastic eye: The politics of Jewish representation in Moroccan museums",
abstract = "This article explores the ways in which Jews are represented in two private Moroccan museums today. As forms of contestation that give visibility to Jews, these museums go beyond current anthropological understandings of museums as 'state-projects' of representation. I argue that this representational complexity and the Moroccan state's attitude toward the museums are best understood through the native Moroccan ethnometapragmatic concept 'the plastic eye/'ayn mika', which com- bines not only the faculty of vision (the eye/'ayn) but also the intentional act of ignoring what is exhibited (the plastic/mika), thus allowing Jewish history in Morocco to be simultaneously foregrounded and backgrounded as it is politically expedient.scopy; 2010 Routledge Journals, Taylor and Francis.",
keywords = "Jews, Morocco, Museum, Representation, State",
author = "Aomar Boum",
note = "Funding Information: An earlier version of this article was presented at the International Conference on Jews and Muslims in the World of Islam (University of Maryland, College Park, 2007). First, I would like to express my thanks and appreciation to Ibrahim Nouhi for allowing me to interview him during a period of 3 years. In writing this article, I have benefited enormously from the valuable critique and comments of Ana Alonso, Matti Bunzl, Yaseen Noorani, Bruce Maddy-Weitzman, Anne Betteridge, Michael Bonine, Norma Mendoza-Denton, Emily Gottreich, Perry Gilmore, Bambi Schieffelin, and Thomas Park. Special thanks go to Nils Bubandt, Mark Graham, and the three anonymous reviewers for their valuable feedback. I am solely responsible for the ideas made in the final version. The ethnographic and archival research for this work was partly funded by the Brandeis University-Tauber Institute Graduate Research Award, The CEMAT/TALM Fellowship for Maghrebi Studies, The UCLA-Maurice Amado Foundation, and the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture.",
year = "2010",
month = mar,
doi = "10.1080/00141841003678742",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "75",
pages = "49--77",
journal = "Ethnos",
issn = "0014-1844",
publisher = "Routledge",
number = "1",
}