صدور كتاب الدكتورة امال حسان فضل الله Embodying Honor

Quote: Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies Modest Women, Deceptive Jinn Perceptions of Foreignness, Danger, and Disease Among the Hadendowa of Eastern Sudan Amal Hassan Fadlalla June 2002 Abstract This article examines the perceptions of danger and disease among the Muslim Hadendowa of eastern Sudan as they underline their conceptualization of “foreignness” and its threat to fertility and procreation. By using “foreignness” as a double-edged category of power and danger, I demonstrate how ideas about the body and its state of sickness and health are expressed through idioms of "contested moralities" to delineate cultural constructions of gender, honor, identity, and regeneration in the face of increasing mobility, marginality, and social change. The article goes beyond the symbolic of embodiment and social boundaries to situate Hadendowa's perceptions of danger and disease in their histories of interactions with different forms of national and international powers. http://www.globalhealth.harvard.edu/hcpds/wpweb/Fadlalla%20wp1206.pdf