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

Ariela Popper-Giveon; Jonathan Ventura

doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2008.09.013

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

Ariela Popper-Giveon, Jonathan Ventura

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Abstract

This article offers a new perspective regarding the initiation of traditional healers through an analysis of the initiation narratives of ten Muslim Palestinian traditional women healers in Israel. The analysis points to three shared themes within these narratives: they begin with a description of the initiation's source (inheritance or revelation); they focus primarily on a later stage of the woman healer's life; and they include an in-depth description of the suffering and hardships that she has endured. These findings describe the initiation of Palestinian traditional women healers in Israel as a process rather than an event; as a derivative of the woman healer's life rather than its driving force.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1807-1816
Number of pages	10
Journal	Social Science and Medicine
Volume	67
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2008.09.013
State	Published - Dec 2008
Externally published	Yes

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
The study was made possible through the support of the Department of Social Work, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, the Joe Alon Center and Yad Itzchak Ben Zvi.

Keywords

Initiation
Israel
Israeli Palestinians
Traditional healing
Women healers

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