La Sadaka: prácticas religiosas populares e identidad gnaoua. Una aproximación etnográfica en Khamlia, Marruecos

Abstract

In the village of Khamlia, Morocco, religious practices and festivities of Islamic, Amazigh and Gnaoua tradition are held throughout the year where music is used for spiritual and medicinal purposes. These practices maintain its historical origins under a multicultural context, harboring traditions, customs and cultural attributes of pre-Islamic origins and attributed to West African ethnic groups, such as the Bambara and other belonging to the Mande ethnolinguistic group. The most important annual festival in Khamlia is the Sadaka. This ethnographic work exposes in detail the preparation, administration, and organization of the festival, in charge of the council of elders of the village, as well as an ethnographic approach to the festival and rituals carried out throughout the three days of duration.