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Ashura a children’s feast in Morocco from old agricultural rituals to nowaday’s entertainment Jean-Pierre Rossie
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Children’s practices during ashura making dolls singing and playing music collecting gifts spraying water playing with fire children’s mascarade
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Map of Morocco
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Tiznit: a town center within old walls
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Sidi Ifni: a small town on the Atlantic coast
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Ikenwen: a village where old and new mix
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women use this doll to ask for rain
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girls create their version of this doll
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children’s play during ashura
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ashura dolls made with sheepbones
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village girls still make their own dolls
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also using plastic dolls they make dresses for
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singing and making music for ashura
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the younger one starts …
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small drums: a traditional gift to children
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together with the reed flute
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local creativity and global toys
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collecting gifts
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spraying water
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but now the toy is everywhere the same
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the game remains
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the ashura fires
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making one’s own firework
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the imashar mascarade of the young men
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creating characters for the mascarade
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being a bearded cyclist with goggles
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or a wise old man
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I am so proud with this mask my father made
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PLAY, GAMES AND TOYS OF NORTH AFRICAN & SAHARAN CHILDREN www.sanatoyplay.org
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