Marta F. Topel (Anthropologist and the head of the Center for Jewis

Broschiertes Buch

The Sacred and the Impure in Judaism

Law, Food, and Identity

Beschreibung

The Sacred and the Impure in Judaism examines the radicalization of certain Orthodox Jewish groups through the lens of kashrut, or Jewish dietary laws.

Autor

Marta F. Topel is an anthropologist and the head of the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of São Paulo (USP). She has been a Visiting Researcher in the Liwerant Center at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Institute of Mediterranean, European and Comparative Ethnology (IDEMEC). Miriam Adelman holds advanced degrees in Sociology (MPhil, New York University, 1991) and Human Sciences (PhD, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil, 2004). She was a professor and researcher in Sociology at the Federal University of Paraná for 27 years. She currently works as a freelance translator of academic texts (Spanish, Portuguese, and French to English) and has published poetry of her own, as well as translations of contemporary Brazilian and North American poets.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. März 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 147mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 288g
• ISBN-13: 9780197677674
• ISBN-10: 0197677673
• Artikelnr.: 69721521