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Charm of Graves: Perceptions of Death & After-Death Among the Negev Bedouin
Gideon M. Kressel
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Description for Charm of Graves: Perceptions of Death & After-Death Among the Negev Bedouin
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBH; HRH; JHBZ; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 154 x 227 x 14. Weight in Grams: 384.
The authors provide a comprehensive picture of burial, mourning rituals, commemoration practices and veneration of the dead among the Negev Bedouin. A primary emphasis is the pivotal linkages between the living and the dead embodied in the intermediary role of healers, sorcerers, seers and other arbitrators between heaven and earth, who supplicate -- publicly and privately -- at the gravesite of chosen awliyah (deceased saints). This book brings together integrated findings of three scholars, based on decades of field work that combine close to 65 years of scrutiny. It maps out the locations and particularities of venerated tombs, the identity ... Read more
The authors provide a comprehensive picture of burial, mourning rituals, commemoration practices and veneration of the dead among the Negev Bedouin. A primary emphasis is the pivotal linkages between the living and the dead embodied in the intermediary role of healers, sorcerers, seers and other arbitrators between heaven and earth, who supplicate -- publicly and privately -- at the gravesite of chosen awliyah (deceased saints). This book brings together integrated findings of three scholars, based on decades of field work that combine close to 65 years of scrutiny. It maps out the locations and particularities of venerated tombs, the identity ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Brighton, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845197087
SKU
V9781845197087
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About Gideon M. Kressel
Gideon M. Kressel is professor emeritus at Ben-Gurion University's Blaustein Institute for Desert Research. Sasson Bar-Zvi (deceased 2012) served as Military Governor of the Negev (1963 68), and had lasting personal involvement with the social concerns of the tribes. Aref Abu-Rabi'a observes the Bedouin past and present from a unique position of participant-observer, and is a professor in the Department ... Read more
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