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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Main Author: Promitzer, Christian (auth)
Format: eBook
Published: Manchester University Press 2018
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