Blood and the City
| Autor: | Jean Gardin, Olivier Givre, Alice Franck |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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| Zdroj: | Anthropology of the Middle East. 11 |
| ISSN: | 1746-0727 1746-0719 |
| Popis: | Based on comparative fieldwork studies of the Muslim ‘Feast of the Sacrifice’, this article questions the places, shapes and stakes of ritual animal death in the urban space. The examples of Istanbul (Turkey) and Khartoum (Sudan) illustrate different but comparable perceptions, practices and management of a ritual event simultaneously associated with religious traditions and confronted with deep transformations in urbanised and globalised societies. Between ritual normalcy and controversial practice, sacrifice in the city is not reducible to a religious matter but addresses at once spatial, social and cultural issues, informed by economic and political stakes. Through a ritual performance and its manifold aspects, the article explores the multiple and evolving representations of the place and role of animals (and their death) in an urban context. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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