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Muslim Healers and Healing: An Ethnographic Study of Aboabo Community of Ghana 穆斯林疗愈者与疗愈:加纳阿博博社区的民族志研究
International Journal of Modern Anthropology Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI: 10.4314/IJMA.V2I14.4
Samuel Adu-Gyamfi, Abubakar Teikillah, Ali Yakubu Nyaaba, Mariama Marciana Kuusaana, Benjamin Dompreh Darkwa, Lucky Tomdi
{"title":"Muslim Healers and Healing: An Ethnographic Study of Aboabo Community of Ghana","authors":"Samuel Adu-Gyamfi, Abubakar Teikillah, Ali Yakubu Nyaaba, Mariama Marciana Kuusaana, Benjamin Dompreh Darkwa, Lucky Tomdi","doi":"10.4314/IJMA.V2I14.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/IJMA.V2I14.4","url":null,"abstract":"Societies that have accepted Islam have blended their native culture with what was, rightly and wrongly, linked to Islam. Here, we present an example of this combination concerning traditional healing processes in Muslim societies. Focusing on the Aboabo community, we did an ethnographic study of healing processes and rites used by healers and further discussed the rites, practices, contributions and challenges of Muslim traditional healing in the community. Based on a qualitative research approach, the current study uses both theories of diffusionism and syncretism and empirical evidence to highlight the mode of treating some diseases using medicinal plants and rituals including prayers and Qur‟an verses recommended in ancient narrations received from earlier Muslim societies (particularly Arab societies). Although Muslim traditional healers are nearly disappearing from many contemporary Muslim societies, the continuation of their presence in some societies such as Aboabo is partly related to the standard of living of the people. The know-how of these healers is mainly limited to their native traditions, some principles of Islam and related questionable narrations. The activities of Muslim traditional practice have remained archaic, often questionable and/or unhygienic despite Islam‟s exhortation of its believers to respect, among other things, cleanliness and hygiene, and especially to increasingly develop their knowledge in major areas such as those concerning medicine and anthropology. Finally, we realized that although the idea of modernization of Muslim traditional healing in Ghana is expressed in some local discourses, it remains at the periphery. \u0000Keyword: Muslim, Islam, Aboabo community, Healing, Muslim healers, Traditional Medicine, Cultures","PeriodicalId":14088,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Modern Anthropology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42757534","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
The Iberian-Guanche rock inscriptions at La Palma Is.: all seven Canary Islands (Spain) harbour these scripts 拉帕尔马的伊比利亚管切岩石铭文:所有七个加那利群岛(西班牙)都有这些文字
International Journal of Modern Anthropology Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI: 10.4314/IJMA.V2I14.5
A. Arnaiz-Villena, Fabio Suarez-Trujillo, V. Ruíz-del-Valle, Adrián López-Nares, Felipe Jorge Pais-Pais
{"title":"The Iberian-Guanche rock inscriptions at La Palma Is.: all seven Canary Islands (Spain) harbour these scripts","authors":"A. Arnaiz-Villena, Fabio Suarez-Trujillo, V. Ruíz-del-Valle, Adrián López-Nares, Felipe Jorge Pais-Pais","doi":"10.4314/IJMA.V2I14.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/IJMA.V2I14.5","url":null,"abstract":"Rock Iberian-Guanche inscriptions have been found in all Canary Islands including La Palma: they consist of incise (with few exceptions) lineal scripts which have been done by using the Iberian semi-syllabary that was used in Iberia and France during the 1st millennium BC until few centuries AD .This confirms First Canarian Inhabitants navigation among Islands. In this paper we analyze three of these rock inscriptions found in westernmost La Palma Island: hypotheses of transcription and translation show that they are short funerary and religious text, like of those found widespread through easternmost Lanzarote, Fuerteventura and also Tenerife Islands. They frequently name “Aka” (dead), “Ama” (mother godness) and “Bake” (peace), and methodology is mostly based in phonology and semantics similarities between Basque language and prehistoric Iberian-Tartessian semi-syllabary transcriptions. These Iberian-Guanche scripts are widespread in La Palma usually together with spiral and circular typical Atlantic motifs which are similar to these of Megalithic British Isles, Brittany (France) and Western Iberia. Sometimes linear incise Iberian-Guanche inscriptions are above the circular ones (more recent) but they are also found underneath (less recent). The idea that this prehistoric Iberian semi-syllabary was originated in Africa and/or Canary Islands is not discarded. It is discussed in the frame of Saharian people migration to  Mediterranean, Atlantic (i.e.: Canary Islands) and other areas, when hyperarid climate rapidly established. On the other hand, an Atlantic gene and possibly linguistic and cultural pool is shared among people from British Isles, Brittany (France), Iberia (Spain, Portugal), North Africa and Canary Islands. \u0000Keywords: La Palma, Iberian-Guanche, Latin, Inscriptions, Iberian, Celts, Sahara, Africa, Garafia, Santo Domingo, Canary Islands, Lybic British, Brittons, Basque, Irish, Lybic Canarian, Palmeses, Benahoaritas, Awaritas, Tricias, Prehistory, Guache, Tartessian.","PeriodicalId":14088,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Modern Anthropology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45752247","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 8
Intramural Burials from the Ancient Byzantine Settlement in Khirbet es-Samrā in Jordan 在约旦Khirbet es-Samrā的古代拜占庭定居点的内部埋葬
International Journal of Modern Anthropology Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI: 10.4314/IJMA.V2I14.2
A. Nabulsi, P. Schönrock-Nabulsi, Jean Humbert, A. Desreumaux, C. Wurst
{"title":"Intramural Burials from the Ancient Byzantine Settlement in Khirbet es-Samrā in Jordan","authors":"A. Nabulsi, P. Schönrock-Nabulsi, Jean Humbert, A. Desreumaux, C. Wurst","doi":"10.4314/IJMA.V2I14.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/IJMA.V2I14.2","url":null,"abstract":"The church burials of Room-94 and Church-79 as well as the Tower 35-Tomb were excavated within the ancient Byzantine settlement in Khirbet es-Samrā, North Jordan. They were initially dated between the 7th and 9th centuries AD. The report provides the results of macroscopic analyses of the obtained human skeletal remains. These include demographic, anthropometric, epigenetic, and pathologic features. The available biological and archaeological evidence tend to suggest that the five adults and child buried in Room-94 tomb were related males, possibly of one local and highly positioned family that was associated with the adjacent Church 95. The six were successively buried in the “private” tomb in Room-94 of Church-95 and not in the “public” cemetery just outside the settlement. The two probable cases of brucellar lesions on the cervical vertebrae of two adults could be indicative of an animal breeding family and that dairy products were part of the local diet. The report also suggests a possible relatedness between Room-94 tomb burials and the 7th century AD senile female burial in Church-79, which was previously assumed to be a male church-functionary burial. Despite being marked by a cross-engraved stone and a probably lethal arrow injury, the available evidence lead to conclude that the male Tower burial, previously identified as of the 9th century AD, was in fact a medieval burial and that it is neither related to the ancient settlement nor to its ancient population. Also presented are some rarely reported biological features, e.g. the “en bloc” manifestation of the transverse foramen division on the cervical vertebrae C5 to C7. \u0000Keywords: Jordan - Byzantine Period - Church Burial – Anthropometry - Epigenetics- Paleopathology.","PeriodicalId":14088,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Modern Anthropology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48347937","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Unequal yoke: The paradox of religious slavery 不平等的枷锁:宗教奴役的悖论
International Journal of Modern Anthropology Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI: 10.4314/IJMA.V2I14.6
L. Chineyemba
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Exceptions to the rule? Ethnographic alternatives to cumulative cultural evolution 规则的例外情况?累积文化进化的民族志替代品
International Journal of Modern Anthropology Pub Date : 2020-11-27 DOI: 10.4314/IJMA.V2I14.1
G. Steiner
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Cart-ruts in Lanzarote (Canary Islands, Spain) volcanoes tops point to Equinoxes, Summer and Winter Solstices 兰萨罗特(西班牙加那利群岛)火山顶部的车辙指向Equinoxes、Summer和Winter Solstices
International Journal of Modern Anthropology Pub Date : 2020-07-07 DOI: 10.4314/ijma.v2i13.4
A. Arnaiz-Villena, Marcial Medina, V. Ruíz-del-Valle, Adrián López-Nares, J. Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Fabio Suarez-Trujillo
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引用次数: 4
Historical dynamics of Ọjị Ezinihitte cultural festival in Igboland, Nigeria 尼日利亚伊格兰Ọjị Ezinihitte文化节的历史动态
International Journal of Modern Anthropology Pub Date : 2020-07-07 DOI: 10.4314/ijma.v2i13.2
A. Odoemene
{"title":"Historical dynamics of Ọjị Ezinihitte cultural festival in Igboland, Nigeria","authors":"A. Odoemene","doi":"10.4314/ijma.v2i13.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/ijma.v2i13.2","url":null,"abstract":"Ọjị (kola nut) is indispensable in traditional life of the Igbo of Nigeria. It plays an intrinsic role in almost all segments of the people‟s cultural life. In the Ọjị Ezinihitte festivity the „kola tradition‟ is meaningfully and elaborately celebrated. This article examines the importance of Ọjị within the context of Ezinihitte socio-cultural heritage, and equally accounts for continuity and change within it. An eclectic framework in data collection was utilized for this research. This involved the use of key-informant interviews, direct observation as well as extant textual sources (both published and un-published), including archival documents, for the purposes of the study. In terms of analysis, the study utilized the qualitative analytical approach. This was employed towards ensuring that the three basic purposes of this study – exploration, description and explanation – are well articulated and attained. The paper provided background for a proper understanding of the „sacred origin‟ of the Ọjị festive celebration. Through a vivid account of the festival‟s processes and rituals, it achieved a reconstruction of the festivity‟s origins and evolutionary trajectories and argues the festival as reflecting the people‟s spirit of fraternity and conviviality. Furthermore, in surveying the festival‟s dynamism within Ezinihitte society over time, it established that the Ọjị festival is not only a unifying factor but also lies at the heart of community development efforts in Ezinihitte clan. \u0000Keywords: Ọjị (kola nut), Ọjị Ezinihitte cultural festival, Socio-cultural heritage, Historical dynamics, Igboland, Nigeria.","PeriodicalId":14088,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Modern Anthropology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47177574","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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New insights into the processes of biological evolution and human reproduction provided through a dialogue between science and Qur’an 通过科学与《古兰经》之间的对话,对生物进化和人类繁殖过程提供了新的见解
International Journal of Modern Anthropology Pub Date : 2020-07-07 DOI: 10.4314/ijma.v2i13.1
H. Chaabani
{"title":"New insights into the processes of biological evolution and human reproduction provided through a dialogue between science and Qur’an","authors":"H. Chaabani","doi":"10.4314/ijma.v2i13.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/ijma.v2i13.1","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper I present new insights into the processes of biological evolution and human reproduction in the light of a dialogue between the current scientific knowledge and Qur‟an verses. I demonstrate how this dialogue could provide new complementary information and a more comprehensive state of each of these two processes. After clearing up some confusions and uncertainties related to the biological evolution process I propose a new vision for this process considering that the Creator (Allah) of the entire Universe had organized and supervised the emergence of living beings depending on a wonderful evolutionary plan. As this vision is hopefully in agreement with my interpretations of related Qur‟an verses, I concretize it from them. One of scientific paintings deduced from these verses shows how our humankind emerged at the top of a complex network of evolutionary stages evolved from the earth like the emergence of the upper part of the top of a tree. To the second biological process „Human Reproduction‟ Allah gives a more accurate designation „Human Picturing Creation‟ insisting on the fact that the major acts of this process do not happen randomly but under His supervision. Moreover Allah given to the major elements of this process, wonderful designations including some unnoticed details through superb rhetoric formats peculiar to Qur‟an. At the end of this paper I point out that my interpretations of Qur‟an verses, based on new rigorous methodology, are generally different from the existing ones showing how the latter include errors and distortions making them incompatible with science. More bad consequences, such as terrorism, have been the result of erroneous interpretations of some verses on socio-political issues. To solve this problem of erroneous interpretations and related false considerations that have accumulated through the ages and were merged into cultures of Muslim societies, I call for a “First International Real Renewal of Islam” \u0000Key words: Qur‟an interpretation, Biological evolution, Supernatural Creator, Limits of science, Human reproduction, Picturing creation, Human gametes, Human zygote, Human embryogenesis, Real Renewal of Islam.","PeriodicalId":14088,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Modern Anthropology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48116062","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 1
Historicity of personal names in Tanzania: the case of the names in the Rombo-Chagga community in Kilimanjaro 坦桑尼亚人名的历史性:以乞力马扎罗山Rombo-Chagga社区人名为例
International Journal of Modern Anthropology Pub Date : 2020-07-07 DOI: 10.4314/ijma.v2i13.3
A. Lusekelo, Victor Mtenga
{"title":"Historicity of personal names in Tanzania: the case of the names in the Rombo-Chagga community in Kilimanjaro","authors":"A. Lusekelo, Victor Mtenga","doi":"10.4314/ijma.v2i13.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/ijma.v2i13.3","url":null,"abstract":"The history of African societies, which are mostly oral, could be deciphered through onomastics. This is possible because naming practices, which are elaborate, and personal names, which are meaningful, are cherished in African communities. In most cases, the circumstances at birth, which split into several strands, dictate the choice of the name by the name-givers. Naming practice is an elaborate phenomenon amongst the Rombo-Chagga people of Kilimanjaro in Tanzania on two grounds. On the one hand, clan names are associated with Chagga calendar and socio-economic activities, e.g. Mkenda „born during unlucky days‟. On the other hand, home-names reveal circumstances at birth and historical events within the family and beyond, e.g. Ndekir‟yo„I am cured‟. In addition, amongst the Bantu speaking communities in Sub-Saharan Africa, naming practices have been influenced by Christianization, Islamicization and colonization. The personal names of the Rombo-Chagga people reveal the strands of religious (formal) names and foreign (English or Kiswahili) names, e.g. Barakaeli „God-bless‟.Keywords: Ethnohistory, Personal names, Language-in-contact, Rombo-Chagga, Tanzania","PeriodicalId":14088,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Modern Anthropology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49164165","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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The Ibero-Guanche (Latin) rock inscriptions found at Mt. Tenezara volcano (Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain): A Saharan hypothesis for Mediterranean/Atlantic Prehistory 在特纳扎拉火山(西班牙加那利群岛兰萨罗特)发现的伊比利亚-瓜切(拉丁语)岩石铭文:地中海/大西洋史前的撒哈拉假说
International Journal of Modern Anthropology Pub Date : 2020-07-07 DOI: 10.4314/ijma.v2i13.5
A. Arnaiz-Villena, Marcial Medina, V. Ruíz-del-Valle, Adrián López-Nares, J. Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Fabio Suarez-Trujillo
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