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12 produkter
Women as Ritual Experts
The Religious Lives of Elderly Jewish Women in Jerusalem
Inbunden, 1992
1853 kr
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Women as Ritual Experts reveals how in gender segregated religions like Orthodox Judaism women develop their own autonomous religious sphere and activities that sacralize female roles. Until recently, this female world of religion has been all but invisible to both anthropologists and scholars of …
Women as Ritual Experts
The Religious Lives of Elderly Jewish Women in Jerusalem
Häftad, 1997
828 kr
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A paperback reprint of a title originally published by OUP in 1992, this ethnography explores the religious beliefs and rituals of a group of elderly Jewish women, originally from Kurdistan and Yemen, who now live in Jerusalem. By analysing their rituals, daily experiences, life-stories, and …
Folkstories of Children
E-bok, 2012
489 kr
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What prompts children to tell stories? What does the word "story" mean to a child at two or five years of age? The Folkstories of Children, first published in 1981, features nearly five hundred stories that were volunteered by fifty children between the ages of two and ten and transcribed word for …
Metaphors of Masculinity
Sex and Status in Andalusian Folklore
Häftad, 1980
331 kr
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In the Andalusian communities throughout the olive-growing region of southeastern Spain men show themselves to be primarily concerned with two problems of identity: their place in the social hierarchy, and the maintenance of their masculinity in the context of their culture.In this study of …
Folkstories of Children
Häftad, 1981
387 kr
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What prompts children to tell stories? What does the word "story" mean to a child at two or five years of age? The Folkstories of Children, first published in 1981, features nearly five hundred stories that were volunteered by fifty children between the ages of two and ten and transcribed word for …
Women's Folklore, Women's Culture
Av Rosan A. Jordan, Susan J. Kalcik
Häftad, 1985
387 kr
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The essays in Women's Folklore, Women's Culture focus on women performers of folklore and on women's genre of folklore. Long ignored, women's folklore is often collaborative and frequently is enacted in the privacy of the domestic sphere. This book provides insights balancing traditional folklore …
Handmaidens of the Lord
Pentecostal Women Preachers and Traditional Religion
Häftad, 1988
331 kr
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Includes life histories of four women preachers, transcriptions of sermons, and analysis by Lawless of both life stories and sermons.
Terror That Comes in the Night
An Experience-Centered Study of Supernatural Assault Traditions
Häftad, 1989
387 kr
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David Hufford's work exploring the experiential basis for belief in the supernatural, focusing here on the so-called Old Hag experience, a psychologically disturbing event in which a victim claims to have encountered some form of malign entity while dreaming (or awake). Sufferers report feeling …
Metaphors of Masculinity
Sex and Status in Andalusian Folklore
E-bok, 2015
424 kr
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In the Andalusian communities throughout the olive-growing region of southeastern Spain men show themselves to be primarily concerned with two problems of identity: their place in the social hierarchy, and the maintenance of their masculinity in the context of their culture.In this study of …
Terror That Comes in the Night
An Experience-Centered Study of Supernatural Assault Traditions
E-bok, 2015
489 kr
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David Hufford's work exploring the experiential basis for belief in the supernatural, focusing here on the so-called Old Hag experience, a psychologically disturbing event in which a victim claims to have encountered some form of malign entity while dreaming (or awake). Sufferers report feeling …
Women's Folklore, Women's Culture
Av Rosan A. Jordan, Susan J. Kalcik
E-bok, 2015
489 kr
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The essays in Women's Folklore, Women's Culture focus on women performers of folklore and on women's genre of folklore. Long ignored, women's folklore is often collaborative and frequently is enacted in the privacy of the domestic sphere. This book provides insights balancing traditional folklore …
Handmaidens of the Lord
Pentecostal Women Preachers and Traditional Religion
E-bok, 2015
424 kr
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Includes life histories of four women preachers, transcriptions of sermons, and analysis by Lawless of both life stories and sermons.
