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This ethnography describes in detail the healing rituals such as the use of charms, prayer and exorcism and as they are practiced in a Moroccan shrine and proposes an explanation for their efficacy. The book also gives an overview of traditional medicine in Morocco and includes cases of Moroccan healers practicing in Belgium and the Netherlands. The text is illustrated with more than 60 photographs. In Marokko gaan mensen ervan uit dat veel ziekten door demonen worden veroorzaakt. Genezing zoeken zij bij traditionele genezers die islamitische elementen in hun behandeling betrekken. Ook in Nederland en België leven dergelijke opvattingen onder Marokkaanse migranten. Dit boek is een levendige beschrijving van de genezingsrituelen zoals die plaatsvinden in een Marokkaans heiligdom. Bijzondere aandacht gaat uit naar de gesprekken die genezers voeren met de demonen die mensen in bezit hebben genomen.

Folklore --- Human medicine --- Morocco --- #SBIB:39A9 --- #SBIB:39A77 --- Allochtonen --- Alternatieve geneeskunde --- Culturele antropologie --- Marokko --- Traditionele geneeswijzen --- Volksgeneeskunde --- Medische antropologie / gezondheid / handicaps --- Etnografie: Noord-Afrika en het Midden-Oosten

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Looking at global restructurings, migration, household organization, changing gender roles and technological innovation, this examines the effect of rapid globalization in the Third World village.

Foreign workers, Egyptian --- Alien labor, Egyptian --- Egyptian foreign workers --- Egypt --- Rural conditions. --- #SBIB:39A4 --- #SBIB:39A77 --- Toegepaste antropologie --- Etnografie: Noord-Afrika en het Midden-Oosten --- Alien labor, Egyptian. --- Egypt - Rural conditions. --- Foreign workers, Egyptian.

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Politics --- History of Latin America --- Central America --- Amérique centrale --- Politics and government --- Politique et gouvernement --- 841 Politiek bestel --- 851 Burgeroorlogen --- 882.3 Noord-Afrika --- 972.8 --- 32 <728> --- Mercado Común Centroamericano countries --- -Politics and government --- -841 Politiek bestel --- -Politics --- -Central America --- Amérique centrale --- 882.3 Midden-Amerika

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Performing Islam takes as its main focus the rich array of ceremonial activities that shape and inform the lives of circles of women in south Tehran. Based on anthropological fieldwork, the book describes and analyses rituals that mark religious anniversaries and life course events in Iran today. Arguing that the ritual performances are powerful forums where ideas develop, and where rules, symbols and discourses are contested, this book discusses the values and beliefs underpinning gender constructions in a rapidly changing and complex society. The ambiguous metaphorical language of the rituals is examined, revealing how gender ideologies are projected and renewed, but also challenged, destabilized and ridiculed. Thus the rituals provide possibilities for self-expression, innovation and incremental change. This study goes beyond questions of meaning and culture to interrogate the dynamics of gender performance as products of power and politics.

Muslim women --- Women in Islam --- Women --- Social conditions --- #SBIB:39A77 --- #SBIB:39A11 --- Islam --- Islamic women --- Women, Muslim --- Social conditions. --- Etnografie: Noord-Afrika en het Midden-Oosten --- Antropologie : socio-politieke structuren en relaties --- Muslim women - Iran - Social conditions --- Women in Islam - Iran --- Women - Iran - Social conditions --- Muslimahs

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They are voices that have been silent for centuries: those of captives and refugees, widows and orphans, the blind and infirm, and the underclass of the "working poor." Now, for the first time, the voices of the poor in the Middle Ages come to life in this moving book by historian Mark Cohen. A companion to Cohen's other volume, Poverty and Charity in the Jewish Community of Medieval Egypt, the book presents more than ninety letters, alms lists, donor lists, and other related documents from the Geniza, a hidden chamber for discarded papers, situated inside a wall in a Cairo synagogue. Cohen has translated these documents, providing the historical context for each. In the past, most of what we knew of the poor in the Middle Ages came from records and observations compiled by their literate social superiors, from tax collectors to the inquisitor's clerk, from criminal judges to the benefactors of the helpless, from makers of Islamic waqf deeds to authors of Arabic chronicles, and in Judaism, from Rabbis who wrote responsa to compilers of Jewish-law codes. What distinguishes this book is that it contains the voices of the poor themselves, found in documents heretofore largely ignored. Because an ancient custom in Judaism prohibited the destruction of pages of sacred writing, the documents were preserved, largely unharmed, for as many as nine centuries. The Voice of the Poor in the Middle Ages provides access to the attitudes and philanthropic activities of the charitable, alongside the dramatic writings of the poor themselves, whether penned in their own hands or dictated to a scribe or family member. The book also allows a rare glimpse into the women of the Middle Ages, as well as into the world of private charity--an area long elusive to the medieval historian. For researchers and students alike, this book will be an invaluable social history source for years to come.

Jews -- Egypt -- Charities -- History. --- Jews -- Egypt -- Social conditions. --- Judaism -- Charities -- History. --- Poverty -- Religious aspects -- Judaism. --- Jews --- Judaism --- Poor --- Poverty --- 296 <620> --- 933.6 --- 933.72 --- 933.72 Geschiedenis van het Joodse volk: diaspora in Egypte en Noord-Afrika --- Geschiedenis van het Joodse volk: diaspora in Egypte en Noord-Afrika --- Disadvantaged, Economically --- Economically disadvantaged --- Impoverished people --- Low-income people --- Pauperism --- Poor, The --- Poor people --- Persons --- Social classes --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Destitution --- Wealth --- Basic needs --- Begging --- Subsistence economy --- Religions --- 933.6 Geschiedenis van het Joodse volk: Arabische inval tot Turks bewind--(638-1516) --- Geschiedenis van het Joodse volk: Arabische inval tot Turks bewind--(638-1516) --- Charities&delete& --- History --- Social conditions --- Religious aspects&delete& --- Judaïsme. Jodendom--Egypte --- Economic conditions --- Religion --- Charities --- Religious aspects