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Aesthetics of Sorrow - The Wailing Culture of Yemenite Jewish Women (Hardcover)
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Aesthetics of Sorrow - The Wailing Culture of Yemenite Jewish Women (Hardcover)
Series: Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
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The term "wailing culture" includes an array of women's behavioUrs
and beliefs following the death of a member of their ethnic group
and is typical of Jewish life in Yemeni culture. Central to the
practise 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 practise 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-depth interviews with
wailing women and men, Gamliel illuminates wailing culture level by
level: by the circles in which the activity takes place; the
special areas of endeavor that belong to women; and the broad
social, historical and religious context that surrounds these inner
circles. She discusses the main themes that define the wailing
culture (including the historical origins of women's wailing
generally and of Yemenite Jewish wailing in particular), the traits
of wailing as an artistic genre and the wailer as a symbolic type.
She also explores the role of wailing in death rituals, as a
therapeutic expertise endowed with unique affective mechanisms, as
an erotic performance, as a livelihood and as an indicator of the
Jewish exile. In the end, she considers wailing at the intersection
of tradition and modernity and examines the study of wailing as a
genuine methodological challenge. Gamliel brings a sensitive eye to
the vanishing practise of wailing, which has been largely
unexamined by scholars and may be unfamiliar to many outside of the
Middle East. Her interdisciplinary perspective and her focus on a
uniquely female immigrant cultural practise will make this study
fascinating reading for scholars of anthropology, gender, folklore,
psychology, performance, philosophy and sociology.
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Imprint: |
Wayne State University Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology |
Release date: |
April 2014 |
First published: |
April 2014 |
Authors: |
Tova Gamliel
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 38mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth over boards
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Pages: |
408 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8143-3476-8 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Sociology, social studies >
Ethnic studies >
Jewish studies
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LSN: |
0-8143-3476-8 |
Barcode: |
9780814334768 |
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