Health and Ritual in Morocco - Conceptions of the Body and Healing Practices

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.

Info autore

Josep Lluís Mateo Dieste, Ph.D. (2002), European University Institute (Florence), is Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. He has published numerous books and articles on Morocco, including La "hermandad" hispano-marroquí (Edicions Bellaterra, 2003).

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Josep Lluís Mateo Dieste, Josep Lluís Mateo Dieste
• Editore: Koninklijke Brill NV
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 12.10.2012
• EAN: 9789004232860
• ISBN: 978-90-04-23286-0
• Pagine: 376
• Dimensioni: 156 mm x 234 mm x 20 mm
• Peso: 527 g
• Serie: Social, Economic and Political; Brill
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Biologia > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Etnologia > Demologia