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Ritual Medical Lore of Sephardic Women: Sweetening the Spirits, Healing the Sick »
Authors: Isaac Jack Levy, Rosemary Levy Zumwalt
ISBN-13: 9780252026973, ISBN-10: 0252026977
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Date Published: January 2002
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Isaac Jack Levy
Book Synopsis
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | ||
| Introduction | 1 | |
| 1 | Keeping the Spirits Happy, Keeping the Family Healthy | 9 |
| 2 | The Sephardim of the Ottoman Empire | 36 |
| 3 | Memories of Time Past | 57 |
| 4 | The Power of Speech | 74 |
| 5 | "Let It Go to the Garlic!" | 94 |
| 6 | Narrating Health, Marking the Social | 112 |
| 7 | The Treasured Medicine and the Blessed Cure | 131 |
| 8 | Prekante: A Ritual Prayer for Curing | 151 |
| 9 | Saradura: The Ritual of Enclosure | 185 |
| Conclusion | 203 | |
| App.: Interviewees | 207 | |
| Notes | 211 | |
| Bibliography | 225 | |
| Index | 241 |
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