ISBN:
9789004232860
,
9789004234482
Language:
English
Pages:
vi, 365 p
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia
Uniform Title:
Salud y ritual en Marruecos 〈English〉
Parallel Title:
Print version Health and Ritual in Morocco : Conceptions of the Body and Healing Practices
DDC:
306.4/610964
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Abstract:
In Health and Ritual in Morocco, J. L. Mateo Dieste analyzes the many notions of the body in contemporary Morocco and shows how a rich universe of healing systems and rituals conforms to social and historical power relationships
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The Body of the Problem; 2. Approaches and Paths; 3. Body, Rite and Islam; 4. Diversity, Inequality and Health; 5. Medical Systems, Crossovers, Ruptures and Diasporas; 6. Layout and Organisation of the Book; Chapter One Notions of the Person; 1.1. The Concept of the Person in Anthropology; 1.2. Definitions of the Person and Cosmogonies in the Arabo-Muslim World; 1.3. Bodily Components and Metaphors: Organs, Humours and Substances; 1.4. Notions of Person, Humours and Temperaments; 1.5. Sexed Nature: Conceptions of Masculinity and Femininity
Description / Table of Contents:
1.6. Theodicy and Muslim Conceptions of Suffering and Illness1.7. Expressions of Pain and Illness in Morocco; Chapter Two Purity and Impurity: What Enters and Leaves the Body; 2.1. Definition and Causes of Impurity in Islam; 2.2. Islamic Purification Rites; 2.3. Hygiene, Cleanliness and Care of the Body; 2.4. "That Which Enters": Body, Purity and Eating Practices; Chapter Three The Body of the Rite: Gender and Social Ages; 3.1. Introduction: Rites of Passage; 3.2. Rituality and Stages of Life; Chapter Four Plural Notions of Illness and Treatment
Description / Table of Contents:
4.1. Medical Pluralism: Intersections and Coincidences4.2. Classical Humoral Medicine: tibb al-iunani; 4.3. Prophetic Medicine: tibb al-nabawī; 4.4. Popular Medicine and "Traditional" Ways of Healing; 4.5. Specialists and Treatments; 4.6. The "Malfare State": Social Inequalities and the Modern Health System; Chapter Five Among the jnūn: Possessions, Magic and Psychosomatic Afflictions; 5.1. The Madness of Conceptions: What Is a Mental Illness in Morocco?; 5.2. Interpretation of Dreams; 5.3. Psychosomatic Afflictions of Magical-Religious Origin
Description / Table of Contents:
5.4. Traditional Therapies: Specialists, Spaces and TechniquesChapter Six Sexuality and Reproduction; 6.1. Notions and Regulation of Sexuality; 6.2. The Value of Fertility and the Ghost of Infertility; 6.3. Notions of Procreation; 6.4. Contraception and Abortion; 6.5. Pregnancy and Birth; 6.6. Breast-Feeding; Conclusions; Glossary; Bibliography; Index;
Note:
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Available via World Wide Web
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