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Anthropopoiesis, Embodiment and Religious Ritual in Morocco: Toward a New Theoretical Approach

Abstract: In this article I offer a reading, inspired by the embodiment paradigm, the theory of practice and the ‘anthropopoietical’ perspective, of some Islamic rites observed during my fieldwork in Morocco. My main thesis is that these religious and secular rituals should be seen first and foremost as ‘anthropopoietical’ rites, ritual practices through which the society tries to impose its own model of humanity on its members to mould their habitus. To this end, I survey different analyses of ritual in Morocco and compare them with more general theories of embodiment, of habitus, and of ‘anthropopoiesis’.