Going to the People : Jews and the Ethnographic Impulse /

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Taking S. An-sky's expeditions to the Pale of Jewish Settlement as its point of departure, the volume explores the dynamic and many-sided nature of ethnographic knowledge and the long and complex history of the production and consumption of Jewish folk traditions. These essays by historians, an...

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Otros Autores: Veidlinger, Jeffrey, 1971- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Feldforschung
Volkskunde
Brauch
Juden
Jews > Social life and customs.
Jewish folklorists.
Jewish folk literature.
Folk literature, Yiddish.
Ethnology.
Ethnic relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Jewish Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
Ethnologie > Europe de l'Est > Congres.
Litterature populaire juive > Congres.
Folkloristes juifs > Europe de l'Est > Congres.
Juifs > Moeurs et coutumes > Congres.
Juifs > Europe de l'Est > Moeurs et coutumes > Congres.
Ethnology > Europe, Eastern > Congresses.
Jewish folk literature > Congresses.
Folk literature, Yiddish > Congresses.
Jewish folklorists > Europe, Eastern > Congresses.
Jews > Social life and customs > Congresses.
Jews > Europe, Eastern > Social life and customs > Congresses.
Osteuropa
Eastern Europe.
Europe de l'Est > Relations interethniques > Congres.
Europe, Eastern > Ethnic relations > Congresses.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Electronic books.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Half title
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I. History of the Ethnographic Impulse
  • 1. Thrice Born
  • or, Between Two Worlds: Reflexivity and Performance in An-sky's Jewish Ethnographic Expedition and Beyond
  • 2. Between Scientific and Political: Jewish Scholars and Russian-Jewish Physical Anthropology in the Fin-de-Siecle Russian Empire
  • 3. "To Study Our Past, Make Sense of Our Present and Develop Our National Consciousness": Lev Shternberg's Comprehensive Program for Jewish Ethnography in the USSR
  • 4. "What Should We Collect?": Ethnography, Local Studies, and the Formation of a Belorussian Jewish Identity
  • 5. Yiddish Folklore and Soviet Ideology during the 1930s
  • 6. After An-sky: I.M. Pul'ner and the Jewish Section of the State Museum of Ethnography in Leningrad
  • 7. "Sacred Collection Work": The Relationship between YIVO and Its Zamlers
  • 8. The Last Zamlers: Avrom Sutzkever and Shmerke Kaczerginski in Vilna, 1944-1945
  • Part II. Findings from the Field
  • 9. Ethnography and Folklore among Polish Jews in Israel: Immigration and Integration
  • 10. The Use of Hebrew and Yiddish in the Rituals of Contemporary Jewry of Bukovina and Bessarabia
  • 11. Food and Faith in the Soviet Shtetl
  • 12. Undzer Rebenyu: Religion, Memory, and Identity in Postwar Moldova
  • Part III. Reflections on the Ethnographic Impulse
  • 13. Ex-Soviet Jews: Collective Autoethnography
  • 14. Family Pictures at an Exhibition: History, Autobiography, and the Museum Exhibit on Jewish Łódź "In Mrs. Goldberg's Kitchen"
  • 15. Seamed Stockings and Ponytails: Conducting Ethnographic Fieldwork in a Contemporary Hasidic Community
  • Part IV. By Way of Conclusion
  • 16. From Function to Frame: The Evolving Conceptualization of Jewish Folklore Studies
  • List of Contributors
  • Index.

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