Chapter 6 Prevention and stigma the sanitary control of Muslim pilgrims from the Balkans, 1830-1914

Chapter 6 Prevention and stigma the sanitary control of Muslim pilgrims from the Balkans, 1830-1914

This chapter investigates the use of quarantine as an instrument of social control and as dispositive for the construction and stigmatization of the Muslim 'other'. The study takes the under-researched case of the Hajj to Mecca from the Balkans, hence focusing on Muslims from Bulgaria and...

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Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Manchester University Press 2018
Series:Social Histories of Medicine
Subjects:
19th century
Austria-Hungary
Balkans
bosnia-herzegovina
bulgaria
Cholera
disinfection
hajj
Hejaz
Mecca
muslim identity
Quarantine
thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences
thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBX History of medicine
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTB Social and cultural history
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