Tag: Acculturation

Free Download Ivan G. Marcus, "Rituals of Childhood: Jewish Acculturation in Medieval Europe"
English | ISBN: 0300076584 | | 208 pages | AZW3 | 1439 KB
In medieval times, when a Jewish boy of five began religious schooling, he was carried from home to a teacher and placed on the teacher’s lap. He was then asked to recite the Hebrew alphabet and lick honey from the slate on which it was written, to eat magically inscribed cooked peeled eggs and cakes, to recite an incantation against a demon of forgetfulness, and then to go down to the riverbank with the teacher, where he was told that his future study of the Torah, like the rushing river, would never end. This book-Ivan Marcus’s erudite and novel interpretation of this rite of passage-presents a new anthropological historical approach to Jewish culture and acculturation in medieval Christian Europe.

Free Download Juan Sebastian Correa Caceres, "The Aulos in Classical and Late Antiquity: Acculturation, Diffusion, and Syncretism in Socio-Musical Processes of the Me"
English | ISBN: 3832556478 | 2023 | 569 pages | PDF | 18 MB
The aulos, an extinct musical instrument consisting of a cylindrical-bore pipe with finger holes and a double reed for a mouthpiece, was a very popular wind instrument during antiquity (c.1000 BC-AD 600). Through a comprehensive analysis of written, archaeological, and iconographic sources, this book presents a holistic view of this musical instrument, its past, and its consequential history. This study is further substantiated by ethnographic data from Sardinia and Egypt, where the launeddas and the arghul were explored respectively. A new understanding of the history of the aulos is presented through the establishment of parallels between past and contemporary music-related practices.