Health and Ritual in Morocco

Biographical note Readership Table of contents

Publication Type:

Book

Pages, Illustrations:

viii, 368 pp.

Imprint:

BRILL

Language:

English

Biographical note

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).

Readership

Anyone interested in cultural and social anthropology, medical anthropology, or culture and religion in contemporary Muslim and Middle Eastern studies, as well as in migration and health studies.

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Notions of the Person
2. Purity and Impurity: What Enters and Leaves the Body
3. The Body of the Rite: Gender and Social Ages
4. Plural Notions of Illness and Treatment
5. Among the jnun: Possessions, Magic and Psychosomatic Affflictions
6. Sexuality and Reproduction
Conclusions
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

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