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Other restrictions on the use of scents are based on avoiding ritual pollution .
During Ramadan , along ... Here I would like to suggest that the color black is
used to avoid seeing the bright color of blood which would only suggest the
impure ...
Other restrictions on the use of scents are based on avoiding ritual pollution .
During Ramadan , along ... Here I would like to suggest that the color black is
used to avoid seeing the bright color of blood which would only suggest the
impure ...
Pagina 57
As with funeral symbolism this represents a similarity to be avoided . Henna is a
sign of purification and in the UAE is used in rites of passage , especially
wedding and circumcision , as a good omen . Henna may symbolize life just as
the blood ...
As with funeral symbolism this represents a similarity to be avoided . Henna is a
sign of purification and in the UAE is used in rites of passage , especially
wedding and circumcision , as a good omen . Henna may symbolize life just as
the blood ...
Pagina 79
Second , all visitors avoid using oils , wearing incensed clothes , jewelry and all
sorts of cosmetics , including henna and antimony . Only the dead person is
perfumed and incensed . The body is first washed with sidr leaves . Some may
repeat ...
Second , all visitors avoid using oils , wearing incensed clothes , jewelry and all
sorts of cosmetics , including henna and antimony . Only the dead person is
perfumed and incensed . The body is first washed with sidr leaves . Some may
repeat ...
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Sommario
General | 11 |
The Tactile Experience | 28 |
The Visual Experience | 52 |
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Informazioni bibliografiche
| Titolo | Aesthetics and Ritual in the United Arab Emirates: The Anthropology of Food and Personal Adornment Among Arabian Women |
| Autore | Aida Kanafani-Zahar |
| Editore | American University of Beirut, 1983 |
| Provenienza dell'originale | la University of Michigan |
| Digitalizzato | 8 ott 2008 |
| Lunghezza | 119 pagine |
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