Gamliel Tova Aesthetics of Sorrow: The Wailing Culture of Yemenite Jewish Women 9780814334768

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Автор: Gamliel Tova
Название: Aesthetics of Sorrow: The Wailing Culture of Yemenite Jewish Women
ISBN: 9780814334768
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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ISBN-10: 0814334768
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 408
Вес: 0.86 кг.
Дата издания: 30.04.2014
Серия: Raphael patai series in jewish folklore and anthropology
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 9 illustrations
Размер: 231 x 160 x 38
Читательская аудитория: Professional and scholarly
Ключевые слова: Jewish studies
Подзаголовок: The wailing culture of yemenite jewish women
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: 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.

Aesthetics of Sorrow: The Wailing Culture of Yemenite Jewish Women, Gamliel Tova