ISBN:
9789004234482
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9004234489
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (vi, 366 p.)
Series Statement:
Social, economic, and political studies of the Middle East and Asia v. 109
Uniform Title:
Salud y ritual en Marruecos 〈English〉
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Mateo Dieste, Josep Lluís, 1968- Health and ritual in Morocco
DDC:
306.4610964
Keywords:
Human body Social aspects
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Morocco
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Human body Religious aspects
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Islam
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Traditional medicine Morocco
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Medicine Religious aspects
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Islam
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Moroccans Health and hygiene
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Moroccans Medical care
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Moroccans Rites and ceremonies
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Human body Social aspects
;
Human body Religious aspects
;
Islam
;
Traditional medicine
;
Medicine Religious aspects
;
Islam
;
Moroccans Health and hygiene
;
Moroccans Medical care
;
Moroccans Rites and ceremonies
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POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
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Human body ; Religious aspects ; Islam
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Human body ; Social aspects
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Medicine ; Religious aspects ; Islam
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Traditional medicine
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Morocco
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Electronic books
Abstract:
1.6. Theodicy and Muslim Conceptions of Suffering and Illness 1.7. 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
Abstract:
4.1. Medical Pluralism: Intersections and Coincidences 4.2. 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
Abstract:
5.4. Traditional Therapies: Specialists, Spaces and Techniques Chapter 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
Abstract:
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
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
Note:
Title from PDF title page (viewed on Nov. 7, 2012). - Includes bibliographical references and index
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