My interest in marriage and women's access to property led to research specifically focusing on gold jewelry. Based on fieldwork in the Nablus region in Palestine, I have extensively written on how particular kinds of gold have become more or less popular with particular categories of women, such as baladi gold, Italian gold, Gulf gold and so on. Focusing on the materiality of gold, I pay attention to both its economic value (and shifting world market prices of gold), and on its aesthetic meanings. There is still an article waiting to be written about developments during the last decade.
Publications:
Moors, Annelies. 2013, 'Wearing gold, owning gold: the multiple meanings of gold jewelry.' Etnofoor 25, 1: 79-89
Moors, Annelies, 2003, ‘Gendered globalization: the multiple meanings of gold’, Nour (in Arabic). Pp. 58-64.
Moors, Annelies, 2003, ‘Women’s gold: shifting styles in embodying family relations’, in Beshara Doumani, ed., Family History in Middle Eastern Studies. Household, Property, and Gender. New York: SUNY Press. Pp. 101-119.
Moors, Annelies, 1998, ‘Wearing Gold’ in Patricia Spyer, ed., Borderfetishisms. London: Routledge. Pp. 208-223.