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Record Nr.

UNINA9910136942103321

Autore

Gillon Jean-Yves

Titolo

Les anciennes fêtes de printemps à Ḥomṣ / / Jean-Yves Gillon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Presses de l’Ifpo, 2016

France : , : Institut français de Damas, , 1993

ISBN

2-35159-504-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (131 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Collection Tâemoignages et documents  Les anciennes fãetes de printemps áa òHomòs

Soggetti

Spring festivals - Homs - Syria

Anthropology

Social Sciences

Manners & Customs

Homs (Syria) Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

Until the mid-fifties of the twentieth century, the city of Homs celebrated every year a great mawsem , the most spectacular ceremony of which was an impressive procession of Sufi brotherhoods. The author's investigation first consisted of collecting all the information still available on this festival from participants, most of them very old. Over the course of the interviews, it appeared that it was only the last and the best preserved of a series of seven spring festivals whose ethnological literature offers many parallels, in other towns or villages in the Near East. How did these seven spring festivals form a cohesive whole? How did they make sense to the participants? What can we know about their history? How and why did they disappear? Starting from a very local research, the investigation leads us to question certain general aspects of a traditional civilization today dying. Couldn't this glimpse into a lost world also contribute to understanding the crisis in which Near Eastern societies are struggling?