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Aesthetics of Sorrow: The Wailing Culture of Yemenite Jewish Women (Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology) by Gamliʼel, Ṭovah;Greenwood, Naftali is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Cover 1 Title Page, Series Page, Copyright Page, Quote, Dedication 2 Contents 9 Acknowledgments 11 Introduction 13 1. Wailing: A Topic That Defies Research 55 2. Johara: Mother of the Wailers 77 3. Giving Words 115 4. The Performance Stage 147 5. Melancholic Power 221 6. Mission 287 Epilogue: The Lament of the Printed Words 355 Notes 411 References 421 Index 445 Publisher:Wayne State University Press,Published:2014,ISBN:9780814339756,Related ISBN:9780814334768,Language:English,OCLC:882713101 The term “wailing culture” includes an array of women’s behaviors and beliefs following the death of a member of their ethnic group and is typical of Jewish life in Yemeni culture. Central to the practice is wailing itself—a special artistic genre that combines speech with sobbing into moving lyrical poetry that explores the meaning of death and loss. In Aesthetics of Sorrow: The Wailing Culture of Yemenite Jewish Women, Tova Gamliel decodes the cultural and psychological meanings of this practice in an ethnography based on her anthropological research among Yemenite Jewish communities in Israel in 2001–2003. Based on participant-observervation in homes of the bereaved and on twenty-four in-dep

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Author

Gamliʼel, Ṭovah;Greenwood, Naftali

Publisher

Wayne State University Press

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780814339756

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Anthropology, Folklore