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Copyright of Revista Espacios is the property of Talleres de Impresos Oma and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

This article reflects on the changes and continuities in the cultural values and norms of young men and women with regard to gender relations and roles in five Arab Mediterranean countries: Algeria, Morocco, Lebanon, Tunisia and Egypt. To do this, attention is given to the processes and practices of cultural innovation that have arisen among the region's generations of young people since the 2011 uprisings. The empirical analysis is based on qualitative and quantitative data gathered through the multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork and international survey of the SAHWA research project. The analysis reveals young people who are social actors able to confront structural limitations and mechanisms of exclusion; at the same time, it describes the distinct way young men and women in the region inhabit the ambivalent condition of "waithood". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the eighteenth century, magic and witchcraft were used as a means of resolving people's everyday conflicts, anxieties and uncertainties. Practitioners of magic and their clients made use of both public and private spaces, ‘appropriating’ them for purposes very different from those which they were really meant to serve. The performance of magic rituals in public and private spaces meant that both were used as places in which to source ingredients for the rituals themselves. Such spaces were also where potential customers, seeking to avail themselves of sorcery, were directly approached and enticed by its practitioners. The magic rituals performed there were supervised by witches who engaged in magic secretly while professing to reject it in public. Generally, they liked to do their work in places that were symbolically in keeping with the magic they practised, and with the relationships they wished to establish with their clients. In other words, they exploited their chosen milieu for their own particular ends. The people, actively or passively superstitious, who were opposed to a world in which they were expected to obey the accepted norms of moral conduct and in which they found themselves judged harshly by others more submissive to society's rules of behaviour, discovered in witchcraft adaptable ways in which to give expression to their true inclinations while avoiding the risks of openly defying the prevailing views of the society to which they belonged. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The importance of small talk in constructing relationships is well established in previous research. This essay attempts to build on that knowledge by describing another dimension of small talk as a means of building personal relationships. Based on an ethnographic study of several Colombian couples, I tie instances of everyday talk recorded by those couples to systems of meaning both unique to the couple and reflective of broader cultural norms and premises about personal relationships. These systems of meaning, which I describe as relational codes, encompass specific kinds of small talk as well as showing interactional patterns that seem to emerge in situations where small talk in its usual sense is not available as a resource for the couple. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]