Ritual Medical Lore of Sephardic Women Sweetening the Spirits, Healing the Sick

Name: Ritual Medical Lore of Sephardic Women
Author: Rosemary Zumwalt

Auteur: Isaac Jack Levy

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Isaac Jack Levy Rosemary Zumwalt

Engels
Hardcover
9780252026973
05 december 2001
288 pagina's

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Focusing on interviews with elders of the Sephardic communities of the former Ottoman Empire, this title illuminates a complex of preventive and curative rituals conducted by women at home - rituals that ensured the well-being of the community and functioned as a counterpart to the public rites conducted by men in the synagogues.

Winner of the Ellii Kongas-Maranda Prize from the Women's Section of the American Folklore Society, 2003.

Ritual Medical Lore of Sephardic Women preserves the precious remnants of a rich culture on the verge of extinction while affirming women's pivotal role in the health of their communities. Centered around extensive interviews with elders of the Sephardic communities of the former Ottoman Empire, this volume illuminates a fascinating complex of preventive and curative rituals conducted by women at home--rituals that ensured the physical and spiritual well-being of the community and functioned as a vital counterpart to the public rites conducted by men in the synagogues.

Isaac Jack Lévy and Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt take us into the homes and families of Sephardim in Turkey, Israel, Greece, the former Yugoslavia, and the United States to unravel the ancient practices of domestic healing: the network of blessings and curses tailored to every occasion of daily life; the beliefs and customs surrounding mal ojo (evil eye), espanto (fright), and echizo (witchcraft); and cures involving everything from herbs, oil, and sugar to the powerful mumia (mummy) made from dried bones of corpses.

For the Sephardim, curing an illness required discovering its spiritual cause, which might be unintentional thought or speech, accident, or magical incantation. The healing rituals of domesticated medicine provided a way of making sense of illness and a way of shaping behavior to fit the narrow constraints of a tightly structured community. Tapping a rich and irreplaceable vein of oral testimony, Ritual Medical Lore of Sephardic Women offers fascinating insight into a culture where profound spirituality permeated every aspect of daily life.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 05 december 2001
Aantal pagina's: 288
Illustraties: Nee

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Hoofdauteur: Isaac Jack Levy
Tweede Auteur: Rosemary Zumwalt
Hoofduitgeverij: University Of Illinois Press

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Extra groot lettertype: Nee
Product breedte: 152 mm
Product hoogte: 25 mm
Product lengte: 229 mm
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Verpakking hoogte: 25 mm
Verpakking lengte: 229 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 0.61 kg

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