Bujlood

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Bujlood in Morocco (agadir) , November 10, 2011.
This article is about the Amazigh folk tradition. For the gate in Fes, see Bab Bou Jeloud.

Bujlood (بوجلود father of pelts or بيلماون or ⴱⵉⵍⵎⴰⵡⵏ) is a folk Amazigh celebration observed annually after Eid al-Adha in parts of Morocco in which a person or more wears the pelt of the livestock sacrificed on Eid al-Adha.[1][2][3]

Etymology[]

The term Bujlood comes from the Arabic أبو abu (meaning father, or possessor)[4] and jlood جلود (plural of jild جلد, meaning skin, leather, or pelt),[5] so bujlood means father or possessor of pelts.

The term in Tamazight is bilmaouen.[6]

Observance[]

The celebration begins with a bujlood carnival, usually on the day after Eid al-Adha, when young people wear masks and the skins of the sheep or goats that were sacrificed on the Eid. They dance around in their masks and costumes carrying limbs of the sacrificed animals, which they use to play with people they run into and trying to touch them. The point is to spread laughter and cheer.

Interpretations[]

The French ethnologists Edmond Doutté and  [fr] connect the tradition to pre-Islamic Amazigh rites celebrating the changing of seasons and death and resurrection.[7] The Finnish anthropologist Edvard Westermarck connected the tradition to the Roman Saturnalia festival.[8]

The Moroccan anthropologist Abdellah Hammoudi, in his essay The Victim and Its Masks: An Essay on Sacrifice and Masquerade in the Maghreb, refutes these interpretations and contextualizes bujlood as a Moroccan cultural practice inseparable from the Eid al-Adha sacrifice.[9][10]

 [fr] has also written about the sacrifice traditions of the and the in the High Atlas.[10]

References[]

  1. ^ "انطلاق كرنفال "بيلماون" بإنزكان المغربية". الجزيرة مباشر (in Arabic). Retrieved 2019-10-19.
  2. ^ "Boujloud: Morocco's unique Halloween". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 2019-10-19.
  3. ^ "Boujloud, un rite en mal de valorisation". www.leseco.ma | L'actulaité en continu. Retrieved 2019-10-19.
  4. ^ Team, Almaany. "تعريف و شرح و معنى أبو بالعربي في معاجم اللغة العربية معجم المعاني الجامع، المعجم الوسيط ،اللغة العربية المعاصرة ،الرائد ،لسان العرب ،القاموس المحيط - معجم عربي عربي صفحة 1". www.almaany.com. Retrieved 2019-11-21.
  5. ^ Team, Almaany. "تعريف و شرح و معنى جلود بالعربي في معاجم اللغة العربية معجم المعاني الجامع، المعجم الوسيط ،اللغة العربية المعاصرة ،الرائد ،لسان العرب ،القاموس المحيط - معجم عربي عربي صفحة 1". www.almaany.com. Retrieved 2019-11-21.
  6. ^ ""كرنفال بيلماون" .. احتفالية أمازيغية بطعم التعايش والتسامح – فيديو وصور" (in Arabic). 20 September 2017. Retrieved 2019-11-21.
  7. ^ Hachim, Mouna (2017-01-01). "Survivances carnavalesques au Maroc". Horizons/Théâtre. Revue d'études théâtrales (in French) (8–9): 162–170. doi:10.4000/ht.852. ISSN 2261-4591.
  8. ^ SILVERSTEIN, PAUL (2010-12-22). "Masquerade politics: race, Islam and the scale of Amazigh activism in southeastern Morocco*". Nations and Nationalism. 17 (1): 65–84. doi:10.1111/j.1469-8129.2010.00454.x. ISSN 1354-5078.
  9. ^ Abdellah, Hammoudi (1993). The victim and its masks : an essay on sacrifice and masquerade in the Maghreb. Univ. of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-31525-8. OCLC 924903156.
  10. ^ Jump up to: a b Mansouri, Driss (2014), "Manifestations festives et expressions du sacré au Maghreb", Pratiquer les sciences sociales au Maghreb, Centre Jacques-Berque, pp. 555–570, doi:10.4000/books.cjb.674, ISBN 979-10-92046-22-9, retrieved 2021-07-23


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