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Toward an Anthropology of Nation Building and Unbuilding in Israel /

"Toward an Anthropology of Nation Building and Unbuilding in Israel presents twenty-two original essays offering a critical survey of the anthropology of Israel inspired by Alex Weingrod, emeritus professor and pioneering scholar of Israeli anthropology. In the late 1950s Weingrod's ground...

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Otros Autores: Markowitz, Fran (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Fran Markowitz, Stephen Sharot, and Moshe Shokeid
  • COEXISTENCE AND CONFLICT
  • Living together separately: Arab-Palestinian places through Jewish-Israeli eyes / Efrat Ben-Ze'ev
  • Landscapes of despair, islands of hope: Social working in the unrecognized Arab-Bedouin villages in the Negev / Hagit Peres
  • Performing the People's Army: The Israeli military manages symbolic and moral boundaries / Edna Lomsky-Feder and Eyal Ben-Ari
  • Another item in the News: Normalcy and distress at Sapir College / Dafna Shir-Vertesh
  • From the protest to testimony and confession: The changing politics of peace organizations in Israel / Sara Helman
  • MIGRATION, ETHNICITY, AND IDENTITIES
  • From engaged mediator to freelance consultant: Israeli social scientists in the service of immigrant absorption / Moshe Shokeid
  • A different Mizrahi story: How the Iraqis became Israelis / Esther Meir-Glitzenstein
  • Living separately, loving tragically: Cross-ethnic romance in Israeli films / Stephen Sharot
  • Universalism and particularism revisited: Immigrant physicians from the former Soviet Union in Israel / Judith T. Shuval
  • Israelis of Ethiopian origin: New identity constructs and research models / Lisa Anteby-Yemini.
  • RELIGION AND RITUALS
  • Toward an ethnography of a Mediterranean people: The complex culture of southern Tunisian Jewry in the early twentieth century / Shlomo Deshen
  • "With Us More than Ever Before": Making the absent rebbe present in messianic Habad / Yoram Bilu
  • How do we know when a society is changing? Reflections on liberal Judaism in Israel / Harvey E. Goldberg
  • More dry bones: The significance of changes in mortuary ritual in contemporary Israel / Henry Abramovitch
  • "Where It All Began": Archaeology, nationalism, and fundamentalism in Silwan / Michael Feige
  • Vehicles of values: Souvenirs and the moralities of exchange in Christian Holy Land pilgrimage / Jackie Feldman
  • COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES
  • Reading and redacting national landscapes: Tales of two buildings from Israel and Bosnia / Fran Markowitz
  • "I Love a Parade": Ethnic identity in the United States and Israel / Abraham Rosman and Paula G. Rubel
  • Middle East studies in Israel, Europe, and the United States: Trends and prospects / Dale F. Eickelman
  • Afterword / Alex Weingrod.