Research Catalog

Title

Health and ritual in Morocco : conceptions of the body and healing practices / by Josep Lluis Mateo Dieste ; translated by Martin Beagles.

Author

Mateo Dieste, Josep Lluís, 1968-

Publication

Boston : Brill, 2012.

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Details

Description

366 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"In Health and Ritual in Morocco, Josep Lluis Mateo Dieste analyzes the many notions of the body that appear in various Moroccan medical and religious systems. Viewing these issues from anthropological and historical perspectives to the development of Islamic medicine in Morocco, this study highlights the elements of power that define these representations and practices. Mateo Dieste shows that most of the healing rituals challenge the strict division between physical and mental afflictions. Health and Ritual in Morocco provides a valuable structure for understanding Moroccan conceptions of the person, rites of passage, gender differences, and reproductive practices. It offers insights into the weight of the notions of impurity and purification of the body in the daily life of the contemporary Moroccan population."--Publisher's website.

Series Statement

Social, economic, and political studies of the Middle East and Asia ; v. 109

Uniform Title

• Salud y ritual en Marruecos. English
• Social, economic, and political studies of the Middle East and Asia v. 109.

Alternative Title

Salud y ritual en Marruecos.

Subject

• Human body > Social aspects > Morocco
• Human body > Religous aspects > Islam
• Traditional medicine > Morocco
• Medicine > Religious aspects > Islam
• Moroccans > Health and hygiene
• Moroccans > Medical care
• Moroccans > Rites and ceremonies
• Religion and Medicine
• Human body > Religious aspects > Islam
• POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Notions of the Person -- Purity and Impurity: What Enters and Leaves the Body -- The Body of the Rite: Gender and Social Ages -- Plural Notions of Illness and Treatment -- Among the jnun: Possessions, Magic and Psychosomatic Affflictions -- Sexuality and Reproduction.

ISBN

• 9789004232860 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 9004232869 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 9789004234482 (e-book)
• 9004234489 (e-book)

LCCN

^^2012031960

OCLC

• 818447266
• SCSB-11350151

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library