Djeria Ceremonies in Constantine An Anthropological Approach to Rituals and Practices

Abstract

This research is concerned with studying the most important stages of the ceremonies accompanying the marriage rituals in the city of Constantine in eastern Algeria. It is related to the “Djeria” ceremony as a feminine celebration, held for the bride and directed to the women of the groom’s family, through an anthropological approach based on field research based on observational techniques, interviews and photography, as well as theoretical desk research. What they do, then take note of the practices and rituals associated with these ceremonies, especially “the henna ritual”, which was and still is the focus of the story, knowing that we tried to go beyond description, to reorganize and arrange the collected material, and analyze it to understand the internal logic that governs it, and to highlight its importance and function, and to reveal the most prominent changes that I objected to it, whether this was the result of signs of individualism, or resulted from an overlap between the traditional and the modern.