Claiming power through hardship: Initiation narratives of Palestinian traditional women healers in Israel

Popper‐Giveon, Ariela; Ventura, Jonathan

doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2008.09.013

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“…The community accords them much respect and perceives them as a reflection of the mentality, roots, and authenticity of their locality (Al-Krenawi, 2000; Massalha & Baron, 1994; Popper-Giveon, 2012). The healers see themselves as drawing on their culture and expressing the norms at its foundation, and their initiation stories constitute symbols of the local tradition and heritage (Popper-Giveon & Ventura, 2008).…”

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“…The initiation stories of Palestinian healers are an integral part of the life stories they recount to researchers and patients (Kendall, 1988; Popper-Giveon & Ventura, 2008; Trudelle Schwarz, 2003). The narrative is generally stylized, structured according to cultural principles, and retold repeatedly in various contexts to consolidate the healer’s prestige.…”

Section: Palestinian Nonconventional Therapists In Israelmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Traditional Palestinian healers represent a linchpin of Palestinian culture. Transmission from generation to generation plays a significant role in their initiation stories (Gorkin & Othman, 1994; Massalha & Baron, 1994; Popper-Giveon & Ventura, 2008). Healers, both folk and religious, are described as pillars of the community, as those who embody society’s key values in their lifestyle.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In her story, Nasrin described a common initiation pattern for traditional Palestinian women healers (Popper-Giveon & Ventura, 2008). She outlined the relation between her and her grandmother, who was a village healer and midwife, recalling the details of a marvelous symbolic birth story similar to the stories told by healers in other cultures (Eliade, 1964;Vitebsky, 1995).…”

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2013

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Studies of traditional healers in various cultures describe their initiation into the healing profession as a climax that constructs their professional and personal identity. Literature emphasizes the healers' intense association with the culture in which they work, as reflected in the initiation narratives that healers in various cultures recount. In this article we reveal unique initiation stories and identity formation from Palestinian nonconventional healers in Israel who described a cross-cultural journey: After studying healing traditions of foreign cultures and on returning to their own cultural environment, they developed a unique and complex combination of healing values and traditions. We examine the stories of these healers, whose personal and professional identities are affected by cultural, political, and social contexts. We note the blending of healing traditions and practices, and the changes in identity, assessing them against cultural processes that many Palestinians in Israel have been undergoing over the past few decades.

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“…This story of the mysterious powers of the healing bead was collected as part of lengthy fieldwork on traditional Arab women healers in Israel: urban healers, situated in mixed Arab-Jewish cities such as Jaffa, Lod, and Ramla and Bedouin healers situated in tribal communities in the south of Israel (Popper-Giveon 2012;Popper-Giveon and Ventura 2008).…”

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