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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818868803321

Autore

Rosenfeld Gavriel David <1967->

Titolo

Toward an anthropology of nation building and unbuilding in Israel / / edited and with an introduction by Fran Markowitz, Stephen Sharot, and Moshe Shokeid ; afterword by Alex Weingrod

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lincoln : , : University of Nebraska Press, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

0-8032-7413-0

0-8032-7194-8

0-8032-7412-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (644 p.)

Collana

Studies of Jews in Society

Classificazione

SOC002010SOC049000HIS019000

Disciplina

956.9405

Soggetti

Minorities - Israel

Ethnicity - Israel

Israel Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Introduction""; ""Part 1. Coexistence and Conflict""; ""1. Living Together Separately""; ""2. Landscapes of Despair, Islands of Hope""; ""3. Performing the People�s Army""; ""4. Another Item in the News""; ""5. From the Protest to Testimony and Confession""; ""Part 2. Migration, Ethnicity, and Identities""; ""6. From Engaged Mediator to Freelance Consultant""; ""7. A Different Mizrahi Story""; ""8. Living Separately, Loving Tragically""; ""9. Universalism and Particularism Revisited""

""10. Israelis of Ethiopian Origin""""Part 3. Religion and Rituals""; ""11. Toward an Ethnography of a Mediterranean People""; ""12. “With Us More than Ever Before�""; ""13. How Do We Know When a Society Is Changing?""; ""14. More Dry Bones""; ""15. “Where It All Began�""; ""16. Vehicles of Values""; ""Part 4. Comparative Perspectives""; ""17. Reading and Redacting National Landscapes""; ""18. “I Love a Parade�""; ""19. Middle East Studies in Israel, Europe, and the United States""; ""Afterword""; ""Contributors""; ""About Fran Markowitz"";



""About Stephen Sharot""

""About Moshe Shokeid""""About Alex Weingrod""

Sommario/riassunto

"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 groundbreaking ethnographic research of Israel's underpopulated south complicated the dominant social science discourse and government policy of the day by focusing on the ironies inherent in the project of Israeli nation building and on the process of migration prompted by social change. Drawing from Weingrod's perspective, this collection considers the gaps, ruptures, and juxtapositions in Israeli society and the cultural categories undergirding and subverting these divisions. Organized into four parts, the volume examines our understanding of Israel as a place of difference, the disruptions and integrations of diaspora, the various permutations of Judaism, and the role of symbol in the national landscape and in Middle Eastern studies considered from a comparative perspective. These essays illuminate the key issues pervading, motivating, and frustrating Israel's complex ethnoscape.  "--