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Ritual Medical Lore of Sephardic Women - 9780252026973
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- Book Title
- Ritual Medical Lore of Sephardic Women
- ISBN
- 9780252026973
- Publication Year
- 2001
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Ritual Medical Lore of Sephardic Women: Sweetening the Spirits, Healing the Sick
- Item Height
- 229 mm
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Subject
- Social Sciences, History
- Item Width
- 152 mm
- Number of Pages
- 288 Pages
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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 Levy and Rosemary Levy 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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Publisher
University of Illinois Press
ISBN-13
9780252026973
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Product Key Features
Publication Year
2001
Subject
Social Sciences, History
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Ritual Medical Lore of Sephardic Women: Sweetening the Spirits, Healing the Sick
Type
Textbook
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
229 mm
Item Width
152 mm
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United States
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