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from the 17th century on. Pascon was still working on this when he died; it had taken him seventeen years to gain the confidence of the family's patriarch and be allowed access to the family archives. The posthumously published book contains five separate studies on various aspects of the family—from
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A materialist who emphasized the crucial importance of ideas, a sociologist who emphasized the importance of geography, technology, and above all history, Pascon saw in the Haouz both a terrain for investigation and also a subject from which
Moroccans (and others) could learn how change took place
30:(13 April 1932 – 21 April 1985) was a Moroccan sociologist whose multidisciplinary work aimed to elucidate French colonialism in Morocco and the capitalism that accompanied it, and the development of Morocco after its independence from France. He was perhaps the first modern scholar to study
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in 1970, where he worked until his death in a variety of functions, founding and leading units including the
Department for Rural Development. His 1975 thesis was an interdisciplinary study (involving history, sociology, and geography, coupled with his own research, including archives from local
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wrote: "He died at the height of his powers, at a time when he was being quite exceptionally productive. His death is a human tragedy, but it is also an immeasurable loss to scholarship. He was unquestionably one of the most thorough, profound, best informed and penetrating of the students of
179:(Rabat: Editions Marocaines et Internationales, 1977). Pascon's doctoral thesis, in two volumes; an interdisciplinary study. One critic reviewed it as if it were a drama with four main characters: the tribes, which make up the basic human component but in a great variety; the
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