Memories of Time Past: Fieldwork among the Sephardim

This article examines the process of doing fieldwork among elderly Sephardim on the topic of folk medicine and folk religion. The authors examine the way in which they, as fieldworkers, and the people they interviewed took part in a joint endeavor, and a shared experience that brought forth images of a life earlier lived. The process of recall was not one-sided. Rather, there was an interconnectedness of memory that rendered a joint venture into the past.