An edition of Ritual medical lore of Sephardic women (2001)

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sweetening the spirits, healing the sick

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An edition of Ritual medical lore of Sephardic women (2001)

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sweetening the spirits, healing the sick

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University of Illinois Press
Language
English
Pages
260

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Subjects

Jewish women, Social life and customs, Sephardim, Traditional medicine, Folklore, Medicine, Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric, Medical Anthropology, Women In Judaism, Social Science, Sociology, Ethnic Studies - General, Folklore & Mythology - Folklore, Social Science / Ethnic Studies, Anthropology - Cultural, Folklore & Mythology, Judaism - General, 19th century, Folklore, Jewish women, Medicine, Sephardim, Social life and customs, Spiritual Therapies, Traditional Medicine, Religion and Medicine, Jews, Women

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20th century, 19th century

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Ritual medical lore of Sephardic women: sweetening the spirits, healing the sick
2002, University of Illinois Press
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Cover of: Ritual Medical Lore of Sephardic Women
Ritual Medical Lore of Sephardic Women: Sweetening the Spirits, Healing the Sick
December 5, 2001, University of Illinois Press
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Table of Contents

Keeping the spirits happy, keeping the family healthy -- The
Sephardim of the Ottoman Empire --
Memories of time past -- The
power of speech --
"Let it go to the garlic!" --
Narrating health, marking the social -- The
treasured medicine and the blessed cure --
Prekante: a ritual prayer for curing --
Saradura: the ritual of enclosure.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-239) and index.

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Urbana

Classifications

Library of Congress
GR98 .L48 2002, GR98.L48 2002

The Physical Object

Pagination
xi, 260 p., [6] p. of plates :
Number of pages
260

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OL15515983M
Internet Archive
ritualmedicallor0000levy
ISBN 10
0252026977
LCCN
2001002079
OCLC/WorldCat
46769327
Library Thing
378102
Goodreads
942769

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