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A tale of an amulet / Ariela Popper-Giveon, David Yellin Academic college of education in Jerusalem.

Title
A tale of an amulet / Ariela Popper-Giveon, David Yellin Academic college of education in Jerusalem.
Author
Popper-Giveon, Ariela, 1970-
Publication
Durham, North Carolina : Carolina Academic Press, [2015]

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Description
xvii, 300 pages; 23 cm.
Summary
"A Tale of an Amulet provides accounts of traditional Arab women healers in Israel and their patients and presents a wide variety of case studies, combined with personal experiences from the field." -- back cover
Series Statement
Carolina Academic Press medical anthropology series
Uniform Title
Carolina Academic Press ethnographic studies in medical anthropology series.
Subject
  • Jakōb Patriarcha
  • Women
  • Arabs > ethnology
  • Sociological Factors
  • Medicine, Traditional
  • Amulets (Judaism)
  • Medical anthropology
  • Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric > Judaism
  • Traditional medicine
  • Healers
  • Israel
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-288) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Series Editor Preface -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- The Field -- Initiation -- Treatment -- Power -- Suffering -- Transformation -- Coping -- Bibliography -- Index.
ISBN
  • 9781611637069 (alk. paper)
  • 1611637066 (alk. paper)
LCCN
  • ^^2014049839
  • 40025045713
OCLC
904504770
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library