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Setting the scene: ritual performance and place-making in everyday life
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Marianne Holm Pedersen
Published: 31 March 2014
..., processes of place-making, and the reproduction of practice. The author claims that migrants’ relations to place can be understood by examining their notions of relatedness to others. She further discusses the change and continuity of social practice in a migration context. The final part of the chapter...
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The celebration of ‘Id al-fitr: notions of relatedness among extended families
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Marianne Holm Pedersen
Published: 31 March 2014
... Ali mosque Copenhagen Qur’an Ramadan salat al ‘id morning prayer Umm Hussein Umm Zainap Geertz Clifford Myerhoff Barbara G ritual Schieffelin Edward L shopping centres Umm Ali Umm Fatima belonging family Gardner Katy Grillo Ralph Italy Moroccan women in neighbours relatedness Salih...
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Fatima’s taklif: bringing up children for a good future
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Marianne Holm Pedersen
Published: 31 March 2014
... a parental perspective, the celebration of taklif represents both efforts to create relatedness between parents and children and attempts to include children in different kinds of community. All in all, the event forms part of a greater effort to make children into moral human beings...
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Iraqi women in Denmark: Ritual performance and belonging in everyday life
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Marianne Holm Pedersen
Published online: 18 September 2014
Published in print: 31 March 2014
... to the fact that Iraqi women’s religious activities in many ways contribute to categorizing them as outsiders to Danish society, their participation in religious events also localizes them in Copenhagen. Drawing on anthropological theories of ritual, relatedness and place-making, the analysis underscores...
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Seduction, poison and magical theft: gender and contemporary fantasies of witchcraft
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Alison Rowlands
Published: 06 March 2003
...As was the case in many other places in early modern Europe, most of those who were accused of or who confessed to witchcraft or who were formally questioned as suspected witches in Rothenburg were female. This chapter provides new explanation for the gender-relatedness of witchcraft accusations...