The traditional women in the Mediterranean island of Djerba (North Africa)
Subtitle: a narrative anthropology
By: Zakia Robana ; with a foreword by Robert Myers
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lewiston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780773413078
Subjects: Women; Social conditions; Social life and customs; Ethnology
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Why women only-hypothesis of study; title: Methodology; title: The challenge; title: Midoun in the north-east of the island; title: Agriculture-harvest; title: Economic concepts; title: Religious celebrations and rituals; title: Food : its meaning and celebration; title: The wedding and its different aspects; title: Giving birth; title: The circumcision; title: Idda rituals in the Djerbian tradition; title: Conclusion; title: Translation of songs and proverbs.