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Ethnographic Encounters in Israel : Poetics and Ethics of Fieldwork /

Israel is a place of paradoxes, a small country with a diverse population and complicated social terrain. Studying its culture and social life means confronting a multitude of ethical dilemmas and methodological challenges. The first-person accounts by anthropologists engage contradictions of religi...

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Autres auteurs: Markowitz, Fran
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2013]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table des matières:
  • Cover; ETHNOGRAPHIC ENCOUNTERS IN ISRAEL; Title; Copyright; Contents; Editor's Acknowledgments; Contributors; Introduction: Edgy Ethnography in a Little Big Place; Part I. Confrontations and Conversions; 1 How Christian Pilgrims Made Me Israeli; 2 Mission Not Accomplished: Negotiating Power Relations and Vulnerability among Messianic Jews in Israel; 3 Doing Dimona: An Americanist Anthropologist in an Africanized Israel; Part II. State Categories and Global Flows; 4 Seeking Truth in Hip-Hop Music and Hip-Hop Ethnography.
  • 5 The State of the Jewish Family: Eldercare as a Practice of Corporeal Symbiosis by Filipina Migrant Workers6 Diasporas Collide: Competing Holocausts, Imposed Whiteness, and the Seemingly Jewish Non-Jew Researcher in Israel; Part III. Fieldwork to the Point of Worry; 7 Traveling between Reluctant Neighbors: Researching with Jews and Bedouin Arabs in the Northern Negev; 8 On the Matter of Return to Israel/Palestine: Autoethnographic Reflections; 9 Some Kind of Masochist? Fieldwork in Unsettling Territory; 10 The Impurities of Experience: Researching Prostitution in Israel.