Une saison à La Mecque

de Abdellah Hammoudi · Publicada por primera vez en 2005

"In the direction of Mecca, I did not know what would be the outcome of my journey." Abdellah Hammoudi tells of his pilgrimage to Mecca, Safa, Marwa, Arafa ...), guided by the look of both a pilgrim and anthropologist. For the pilgrimage is not limited to the succession of rituals: it is also necessary to learn a new form of daily life, to tame promiscuity, to pace the markets. And, well before the arrival in Saudi Arabia, during the preparations, already draws the economic dimension of this adventure: faith itself is taken in the currents of the commodity ... Finally, beyond the testimony, Abdellah Hammoudi Proposes an unprecedented reflection on the senses of the rituals which progresses towards its ending, the pilgrimage: as an intrigue which progresses towards its denouement, the pilgrimage takes hold of the human lives - of the sense of the time, the political stakes, the rules of commerce. .. - and transforms them.