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Death and the Sacred in the Ksour Mountains

Death and the Sacred in the Ksour Mountains

Paperback

General Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 6208954932
ISBN13: 9786208954932
Publisher: Our Knowledge Publishing
Published: Jun 17 2025
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.53 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The title Mort, Sacré aux Monts des Ksour (Death, Sacred in the Ksour Mountains) introduces the key themes of this book, and invites the reader to explore the relationship between the spiritual and cultural dimension of death, and the way it has shaped the ksour as architectural and community entities. This second anthropological work focuses on the symbolic history of the Saharan Atlas (Monts des Ksour). The author attempts to show that the tracings are not exclusively geometrical, but are also motivated by the expression of a very lively religious culture. We are in the land of the Ksour mountains. Everywhere, the traditional habitat is a ksar. Chellala Dahrania, Chellala Ghablia, Boussemghoun, Arbaouat, Labiodh Sidi Cheikh, Sidi Hadj Ben Ameur, Kerakda, Mécheria Sķira, Ghassoul, Brézina, Sidi Hadj Eddin, El Ouiddan, Sfissifa, Boualem, Sidi Ahmed Bel Abbès, El Maya, Khellaf, Sidi Taïfour, Sidi Slimen were all originally Ksour (a ksar is a fortified place in North Africa).

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