Publications & Reports
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Anthropology
Health and Ritual in Marocco
Author: Josep Llu�s Mateo Dieste (Manresa, 1968) has a degree in Sociology, UAB (1991), MA in Anthropology (UAB, 1996), and from 2002 a Ph.D. in History at the European University Institute (Italy). Since 2004 he has worked as a researcher and professor in the Social and Cultural Anthropology Department. His research focuses on the anthropology and history of North Africa and the relations between the Maghreb and Europe. He has conducted research on Moroccan communities in Catalonia and northern Morocco on diverse topics, from the dominant stereotypes or Spanish Protectorate in Morocco (1912-1956), to healing rituals in Morocco, that this book deals with.
Summary: In this book (english version of Salud y ritual en Marruecos. Concepciones del cuerpo y pr�cticas de curaci�n, Barcelona, Edicions Bellaterra, 2010), Josep Llu�s Mateo Dieste analyzes the many notions of the body that appear at various Moroccan medical and religious systems. Adopting an anthropological and historical perspective to the development of Islamic medicine in Morocco, this study highlights the elements of power that define these representations and practices. Health and Ritual in Marocco provides a valuable structure for understanding Moroccan conceptions of the person, rites of passage, gender differences and reproductive practices. Finally, it offers insights into the weight of the notions of impurity and purification of the body in the daily life of the contemporary Moroccan population.
Publisher: Editorial Brill Year of issue: 2012
Geography
Francesco Indovina Del análisis del territorio al gobierno de la ciudad
Author: Oriol Nel�lo is geography professor at the Universitat Aut�noma de Barcelona. Specialized in urban studies has combined teaching and research with the promotion of urban and territorial policies.
Summary: The urbanization process, its origins, its forms, its potential, the contradictions and problems that flow from it: this is the focus of the work of Francesco Indovina. But the work of this Italian scholar also seeks to provide the keys to rule a country in a more efficient, sustainable and socially equitable way. This volume explores the career of the author, which is inextricably intertwined with the task of academic and civic engagement, debate critically their input and offers a large selection of his works relating to contemporary urbanization process and the possibilities to orient the benefit of the community.
Publisher: Icaria Espacios Críticos Year of issue: 2012
Art and History
Broadening Horizons 3
Author: Several authors. This publication is a compilation of essays from the 3rd Broadening Horizons congress that was held from the 19th to the 21st of July 2010 in the Universitat Aut�noma de Barcelona.
Summary: Broadening is a series of international congresses dedicated to researchers, including postgraduate students, in the early-stages of their careers who are involved in a number of different disciplinary areas in the study of the Ancient Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean.The general aim of the conferences is to encourage discussion of new topics and to promote the exchange of ideas, data and scientific information among students and scholars of many different specialties – archaeology, prehistory, history, anthropology, archaeobiology and philology – throughout the geographical area known as the Ancient Near East.This volume is a collection of essays from the conference and some original contributions.
Publisher: Edicions UAB Year of issue: 2012
Art and History
Xarxes al Neolític, Congrés internacional
Author: Several Authors. This publication gathers the first "Xarxes al Neol�tic", webs on the Neolithic, conference proceedings. This conference was organized by the Gav� Museum and the UAB Prehistory Department with the support of the Catalonia Generalitat and the Barcelona Diputaci�
Summary: The aim of this conference, which brought together more than 150 European and African researchers, and this publication is to deepen the study of the contacts that took place between different Neolithic societies and human communities in Iberia, France, Italy and north Africa. It also poses a new historical reality in which, as at present, the circulation of all kinds of material and immaterial elements had an impact in the characteristics and evolution of social structures, ways of do and the ways of thinking of those Neolithic communities. At the same time, it aims to integrate the processes that took place in North Africa, which available data have been recently incorporated to the one of the north shore of the Mediterranean, although they are part of global processes developed over the centuries.
Publisher: Revista del Museu de Gavà Year of issue: 2012
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B.11870-2012 ISSN: 2014-6388