Abstract In the Sirwa, Morocco, female weavers produce beautiful carpets with great technical skills and creativity but receive very little financial gain for their artistry. This paper, based on a 17-month ethnographic research amongst Sirwa weavers between 2002 and 2005 confronts the representations and categories used by dealers to sell Moroccan carpets with the reality of production and procurement. Demystifying the selling discourse of dealers to highlight the impact these representations and practices have had on past and contemporary production, it shows that carpet dealers convey essentialist and out-of-date views of weavers and their communities, that do not acknowledge their creativity and modernity. From the colonial times to today, Moroccan weavers have produced and transformed carpets to suit their own taste, and that of their buyers, with creativity and skills.

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摩洛哥织工太现代了吗？

摘要 在摩洛哥的锡尔瓦，女织工以精湛的技术和创造力生产出漂亮的地毯，但她们的艺术作品却很少获得经济收益。本文基于 2002 年至 2005 年间对 Sirwa 织布工进行的为期 17 个月的民族志研究，将经销商用于销售摩洛哥地毯的表述和类别与生产和采购的现实进行了对比。揭开经销商销售话语的神秘面纱，以突出这些表述和做法对过去和当代生产的影响，它表明地毯经销商传达了织工及其社区的本质主义和过时观点，不承认他们的创造力和现代性. 从殖民时代到今天，摩洛哥织工生产和改造地毯以适应他们自己和买家的口味，