Tuhami: Portrait of a Moroccan - Brossura

Crapanzano, Vincent

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0226118711 ISBN 13: 9780226118710

Casa editrice: University of Chicago Press, 1985

Riassunto

Tuhami is an illiterate Moroccan tilemaker who believes himself married to a camel-footed she-demon. A master of magic and a superb story-teller, Tuhami lives in a dank, windowless hovel near the kiln where he works. Nightly he suffers visitations from the demons and saints who haunt his life, and he seeks, with crippling ambivalence, liberation from 'A'isha Qandisha, the she-demon.

In a sensitive and bold experiment in interpretive ethnography, Crapanzano presents Tuhami's bizarre account of himself and his world. In so doing, Crapanzano draws on phenomenology, psychoanalysis, and symbolism to reflect upon the nature of reality and truth and to probe the limits of anthropology itself. Tuhami has become one of the most important and widely cited representatives of a new understanding of the whole discipline of anthropology.

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Book by Crapanzano Vincent

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• Editore: University of Chicago Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0226118711
• ISBN 13: 9780226118710
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 204