book chapter
Ritual and belief in Morocco
Macmillan and Co. • London • Published In 1926 • Pages:
By: Westermarck, Edward.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source was written by an ethnologist on the basis of seven years of field work undertaken in twenty-one journeys to Morocco. In the case of the Rif, the author worked through informants and did not actually visit the area he describes. Although the value of Westermarck's materials has been questioned by some, his material is cited frequently in the literature. Despite the fact that many of his data were not based on direct observation, his long residence in the area gives them some weight. The work has been excerpted since only a relatively small portion of it pertains to the Central Rif. The material includes data on the sanctity of objects, places and persons, information on sorcery and the ceremonial cycle, and sections on luck, funeral custom, ethnozoology, and ethnobotany. Westermarck's complicated system of phonetic transcription of native words has been omitted in the HRAF text.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Cosmology
- Magical and mental therapy
- Organized ceremonial
- Sacred objects and places
- Magic
- Spirits and gods
- Luck and chance
- Prayers and sacrifices
- Purification and atonement
- Infant feeding
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Berbers of Morocco
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2010
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Northern Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- James R. Leary ; 1959
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1898-1926
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1898-1926
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Rif, Morocco
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Edward Westermarck ...
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 27000240
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Folklore--Morocco
- Magic--Morocco
- Rites and ceremonies--Morocco
- Morocco--Religion