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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of California Press
ISBN-100520022416
ISBN-139780520022416
eBay Product ID (ePID)2197194
Product Key Features
Book TitleHamadsha : a Study in Moroccan Ethnopsychiatry
Number of Pages272 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1973
TopicCustoms & Traditions
IllustratorYes
GenreSocial Science
AuthorVincent Crapanzano
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight25.9 Oz
Item Length9.1 in
Item Width5.9 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN72-075529
Dewey Edition19
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Decimal297/.65/0964
SynopsisThe Hamadsha are members of a loosely and diversely organized religious brotherhood, or confraternity, which traces its spiritual heritage back to two Moroccan saints of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, Sidi 'Ali ben Hamdush and Sidi Ahmed Dghughi. Despite a certain notoriety due to their head-slashing and other practices of self-mutilation, the Hamadsha have received comparatively little attention in the literature, ethnographic or other, on Morocco and North Africa.