[PDF.85te] Women and Demons: Cultic Healing in Islamic Egypt (International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology)

Women and Demons: Cultic Healing in Islamic Egypt (International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology)

[PDF.ow96] Women and Demons: Cultic Healing in Islamic Egypt (International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology)

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| poignant anecdote of poverty|By W Boudville|The introduction is worth reading if only for the anecdote that the author relates about visiting an Egyptian woman's home in Cairo. The woman lived in a poor neighbourhood, and the author goes into a description of its squalor. One incident is how the woman is proud that they have a 'European' style toilet, ie. where one sites down o| |'Women and Demons "offers a rich and nuanced examination of contemporary demon possession in Cairo. Although this study focuses on spirit possession, the methodological contribution extends beyond the fields of medical and cultural anthropology and will undoub

This rich ethnographic study describes the nearly impossible challenge of the daily existence of women in the poor neighbourhoods of Cairo. When these women fall ill they often put the blame on beings from an invisible world that invaded their body (possession), and they seek the help of traditional healers in the Zar ceremony or Koran healing. This book examines in detail the links between cosmology, power and gender. It tackles questions such as 'what is possession, wh...

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