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Health and Ritual in Morocco: Conceptions of the Body and Healing Practices , Leiden-Boston, E.J. Brill, 2013. It is always a difficult task to review a book. The task is even more difficult when the book is a broad study involving rich and contrasting materials and theoretical frameworks. Health and Ritual in Morocco is one of these studies, as it is hard to characterise its own specific perspective. It is neither a historical research nor an anthropological one, but it is permeated with both historical and socio-anthropological aspirations. Its methodology is also both textual and ethnographic, but much more textual than ethnographic. The study is indeed an overview of syncretic medical pluralism in Morocco, i.e. the various local systems of healing (humoral medicine, Sufism and cult of saints, Prophetic medicine, Sub-Saharan and Hebrew traditions) and biomedicine. Its aim is not to write a history of each system of apprehending the body , but to display their interactions in Moroccan representations and practices. The author is fully right to emphasise the notion of the body and its social “constructions” as pertinent way to understand the different forms of healing that co-exist in post-colonial Morocco, despite the dominance of the
Studia Islamica – Brill
Published: Nov 11, 2016
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