Zar (eBook)

Spirit Possession, Music, and Healing Rituals in Egypt

Hager El Hadidi (Autor)

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2016 | ePub
200 Seiten
The American University in Cairo Press (Verlag)
978-1-61797-771-8 (ISBN)

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An examination of the history and waning culture of zar in Egypt, and the world in which Muslim women negotiate relations with spiritsZar is both a possessing spirit and a set of reconciliation rites between the spirits and their human hosts: living in a parallel yet invisible world, the capricious spirits manifest their anger by causing ailments for their hosts, which require ritual reconciliation, a private sacrificial rite practiced routinely by the afflicted devotees. Originally spread from Ethiopia to the Red Sea and the Arabian Gulf through the nineteenth-century slave trade, in Egypt zar has incorporated elements from popular Islamic Sufi practices, including devotion to Christian and Muslim saints. The ceremonies initiate devotees-the majority of whom are Muslim women-into a community centered on a cult leader, a membership that provides them with moral orientation, social support, and a sense of belonging. Practicing zar rituals, dancing to zar songs, and experiencing trance restore their well-being, which had been compromised by gender asymmetry and globalization.This new ethnographic study of zar in Egypt is based on the author's two years of multi-sited fieldwork and firsthand knowledge as a participant, and her collection and analysis of more than three hundred zar songs, allowing her to access levels of meaning that had previously been overlooked. The result is a comprehensive and accessible exposition of the history, culture, and waning practice of zar in a modernizing world.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.12.2016
• Zusatzinfo: 13 b/w photographs
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Tanzen / Tanzsport
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: Abul Gheit Song • abyssinia • Alexandria • Anthropological Understanding • Arab • Bakersfield • Banat al-Handasa • birthing • Blood:Sacrificial Rite • Bodies • Cairo • California State University • Class • Complex • Crises • Cults • Culture • Dance • diviners • Egypt • ethnographic • Ethnomusicology • etymology • Fayoum • Folklore • Gender • Guild Corporation • Hager El Hadidi • healing rituals • Historiographical Studies • History • Hybridization • Islam • Leaders • Life Cycle • Lower • menopause:Incense • Methodological • Middle East • Modern • Moral • music • Muslim • Mythology • Offering • Pantheon • paraphernalia • Placation Process • Pregnancy • Region • Religion • Roots • Saints • Social Science • Spirit Possession • Storytelling • Strategies • Style • Tayfat al-Zar • Teenage • Theories • Traditions • Transformation • Transnational Phenomenon • Upper • Women • Zar
• ISBN-10: 1-61797-771-3 / 1617977713
• ISBN-13: 978-1-61797-771-8 / 9781617977718