Tuhami Portrait of a Moroccan

Name: Tuhami Portrait of a Moroccan
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ISBN: 9780226118710

ISBN-10: 0226118711

ISBN-13: 9780226118710

Edition: 1985 (Reprint)

Authors: Vincent Crapanzano

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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.…

Book details

List price: $29.00
Copyright year: 1985
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 1/15/1985
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 204
Size: 5.79" wide x 8.46" long x 0.49" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English



Preface


Introduction

















Epilogue


Bibliography


Index