Fasting And Feasting In Morocco

Author : Marjo Buitelaar
Publisher : Berg Publishers
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015032549431

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Fasting and Feasting in Morocco by Marjo Buitelaar Pdf

Fasting during Ramadan is one of the 'five pillars' or religious duties that Muslims must perform and is for many the most important role for women in Islamic practice, revealing the strategies women employ to earn religious merit. Rather than downplaying the role of women in religious practice within dominant Islam, this work shows that female pious acts are essential to the carrying out of religious doctrine and no less important than the special prayers said by men in the mosques.

Author : Marjo Buitelaar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:472772578

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Fasting and Feasting in Morocco by Marjo Buitelaar Pdf

Author : Rachel Newcomb
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253031303

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Everyday Life in Global Morocco by Rachel Newcomb Pdf

Following the story of one middle class family as they work, eat, love, and grow, Everyday Life in Global Morocco provides a moving and engaging exploration of how world issues impact lives. Rachel Newcomb shows how larger issues like gentrification, changing diets, and nontraditional approaches to marriage and fertility are changing what the everyday looks and feels like in Morocco. Newcomb's close engagement with the Benjelloun family presents a broad range of responses to the multifaceted effects of globalization. The lived experience of the modern family is placed in contrast with the traditional expectation of how this family should operate. This juxtaposition encourages new ways of thinking about how modern the notion of globalization really is.

Author : Mark Woodward
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789400700567

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Java, Indonesia and Islam by Mark Woodward Pdf

Mark R. Woodward’s Islam in Java: Normative Piety and Mysticism in the Sultanate of Yogyakarta (1989) was one of the most important work on Indonesian Islam of the era. This new volume, Java, Indonesia, and Islam, builds on the earlier study, but also goes beyond it in important ways. Written on the basis of Woodward’s thirty years of research on Javanese Islam in a Yogyakarta (south-central Java) setting, the book presents a much-needed collection of essays concerning Javanese Islamic texts, ritual, sacred space, situated in Javanese and Indonesian political contexts. With a number of entirely new essays as well as significantly revised versions of essays this book is a valuable contribution to the academic community by an eminent anthropologist and key authority on Islamic religion and culture in Java.

Author : Remco Ensel
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004491717

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Saints and Servants in Southern Morocco by Remco Ensel Pdf

This anthropological monograph on a persistent form of social inequality in the Maghreb, examines the affinities between ancient hierarchical categorization and new form to impress social ranking in a modern nation-state, showing how hierarchical ideas are instilled and contested in everyday life.

Author : Barbara Sheen
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-23
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781420507713

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Foods of Morocco by Barbara Sheen Pdf

Cumin is considered just as important as salt and pepper and is served at the Moroccan meal right alongside them. Author Barbara Sheen treats readers to a scrumptious blend of geography, history, health, daily life, celebrations, and customs of Morocco. Sidebars feature engaging country factoids as well as a number of recipes with easy-to-follow directions. Readers will be enchanted by the bright colors, enticing aromas, and unique flavors of Morocco.

Author : Aziza Ouguir
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004429895

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Moroccan Female Religious Agents by Aziza Ouguir Pdf

In Moroccan Female Religious Agents: Old Practices and New Perspectives, Ouguir presents a study of the way Moroccan women saints and Sufis constructed sainthood that transgressed the conventional norms and the way they are received by modern Moroccan venerators and feminist Islamists activists.

Author : Timothy Insoll
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1135 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780191617386

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The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Ritual and Religion by Timothy Insoll Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Ritual and Religion provides a comprehensive overview by period and region of the relevant archaeological material in relation to theory, methodology, definition, and practice. Although, as the title indicates, the focus is upon archaeological investigations of ritual and religion, by necessity ideas and evidence from other disciplines are also included, among them anthropology, ethnography, religious studies, and history. The Handbook covers a global span - Africa, Asia, Australasia, Europe, and the Americas - and reaches from the earliest prehistory (the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic) to modern times. In addition, chapters focus upon relevant themes, ranging from landscape to death, from taboo to water, from gender to rites of passage, from ritual to fasting and feasting. Written by over sixty specialists, renowned in their respective fields, the Handbook presents the very best in current scholarship, and will serve both as a comprehensive introduction to its subject and as a stimulus to further research.

Author : Catherine Bell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2009-12-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780199739479

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Ritual by Catherine Bell Pdf

From handshakes and toasts to chant and genuflection, ritual pervades our social interactions and religious practices. Still, few of us could identify all of our daily and festal ritual behaviors, much less explain them to an outsider. Similarly, because of the variety of activities that qualify as ritual and their many contradictory yet, in many ways, equally legitimate interpretations, ritual seems to elude any systematic historical and comparative scrutiny. In this book, Catherine Bell offers a practical introduction to ritual practice and its study; she surveys the most influential theories of religion and ritual, the major categories of ritual activity, and the key debates that have shaped our understanding of ritualism. Bell refuses to nail down ritual with any one definition or understanding. Instead, her purpose is to reveal how definitions emerge and evolve and to help us become more familiar with the interplay of tradition, exigency, and self-expression that goes into constructing this complex social medium.

Author : Hans Daiber
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004442467

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From the Greeks to the Arabs and Beyond by Hans Daiber Pdf

From the Greeks to the Arabs and Beyond written by Hans Daiber, is a six volume collection of Daiber’s scattered writings, journal articles, essays and encyclopaedia entries on Greek-Syriac-Arabic translations, Islamic theology and Sufism, the history of science, Islam in Europe, manuscripts and the history of oriental studies. It also includes reviews and obituaries. Vol. V and VI are catalogues of newly discovered Arabic manuscript originals and films/offprints from manuscripts related to the topics of the preceding volumes.

Author : Sandy Donovan
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Morocco
ISBN : 9780756534028

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Teens in Morocco by Sandy Donovan Pdf

Describes the school life, family life, the traditions and holidays, entertainment and recreation, and the daily routines of Moroccans and Moroccan teenagers living in Morocco.

Author : Susanna Trnka,Christine Dureau,Julie Park
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136690525

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Senses and Citizenships by Susanna Trnka,Christine Dureau,Julie Park Pdf

What does disgust have to do with citizenship? How might pain and pleasure, movement, taste, sound and smell be configured as aspects of national belonging? Senses and Citizenships: Embodying Political Life examines the intersections between sensory phenomena and national and supra-national forms of belonging, introducing the new concept of sensory citizenship. Expanding upon contemporary understandings of the rights and duties of citizens, the volume presents anthropological investigations of the sensory aspects of participation in collectivities such as face-to-face communities, ethnic groups, nations and transnational entities. Rethinking relationships between ideology, aesthetics, affect and bodily experience, the authors reveal the multiple political effects of the senses. The book demonstrates how various elements of political life, including some of the most fundamental aspects of citizenship, rest not only upon our senses, but on their perceived naturalization. Vivid ethnographic examples of sensory citizenship in Europe, the United States, the Pacific, Asia and the Middle East explore themes such as sight in political constructions; smell and ethnic conflict; pain in the constitution of communities; national soundscapes; taste in national identities; movement, memory and emplacement.

Author : Oxford University Press
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780199804252

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Sociology and Anthropology: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide by Oxford University Press Pdf

This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of Islamic studies find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides bibliographic information supported by direct recommendations about which sources to consult and editorial commentary to make it clear how the cited sources are interrelated related. A reader will discover, for instance, the most reliable introductions and overviews to the topic, and the most important publications on various areas of scholarly interest within this topic. In Islamic studies, as in other disciplines, researchers at all levels are drowning in potentially useful scholarly information, and this guide has been created as a tool for cutting through that material to find the exact source you need. This ebook is a static version of an article from Oxford Bibliographies Online: Islamic Studies, a dynamic, continuously updated, online resource designed to provide authoritative guidance through scholarship and other materials relevant to the study of the Islamic religion and Muslim cultures. Oxford Bibliographies Online covers most subject disciplines within the social science and humanities, for more information visit www.aboutobo.com.

Author : Juan Eduardo Campo
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 801 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781438126968

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Encyclopedia of Islam by Juan Eduardo Campo Pdf

Explores the terms, concepts, personalities, historical events, and institutions that helped shape the history of this religion and the way it is practiced today.

Author : Alejandro Colas
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520965522

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Food, Politics, and Society by Alejandro Colas Pdf

Food and drink has been a focal point of modern social theory since the inception of agrarian capitalism and the industrial revolution. From Adam Smith to Mary Douglas, major thinkers have used key concepts such as identity, exchange, culture, and class to explain the modern food system. Food, Politics, and Society offers a historical and sociological survey of how these various ideas and the practices that accompany them have shaped our understanding and organization of the production, processing, preparation, serving, and consumption of food and drink in modern societies. Divided into twelve chapters and drawing on a wide range of historical and empirical illustrations, this book provides a concise, informed, and accessible survey of the interaction between social theory and food and drink. It is perfect for courses in a wide range of disciplines.