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UNINA9910823217403321 |
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Autore |
Hazan Haim |
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Titolo |
Simulated dreams : Israeli youth and virtual Zionism / / Haim Hazan |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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New York : , : Berghahn Books, , 2001 |
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ISBN |
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1-57181-821-9 |
1-78238-935-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (128 p.) |
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Collana |
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New directions in anthropology ; ; volume 14 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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National characteristics, Israeli |
Zionism |
Jews - Israel - Identity |
Memory - Social aspects |
Jewish youth - Israel - Attitudes |
Popular culture - Israel |
Israel Social conditions 20th century |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographcal references (pages ) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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SIMULATED DREAMS; CONTENTS; PROLOGUE; INTRODUCTION; 1. RESOLVING SOCIAL INEQUALITIES; 2. REVISITING THE HOLOCAUST; 3. SERIALIZING WAR; 4. TAMING YOUTH CULTURE; 5. LIVING AFTER THE ASSASSINATION; EPILOGUE; REFERENCES; INDEX |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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At the core of the author's concern stands the question of cultural transmutation in an era riddled with media channels and all-embracing messages. Fragments of the Israeli experience are pieced together in this provocative essay to provide a socio-anthropological agenda for some of the issues involved in the manufacturing of items of symbolic solidarity and common national imagery in an epoch of social disunification and cultural pastiche. The author argues that even though the aesthetic forms of major cultural idioms have unrecognizably altered and are accommodated to befit the shape and style of post-modern living, the basic programs underlying them have remained immutable. Furthermore, it is the quality of adaptability to changing aesthetic conventions that allow such symbolic corner-stones |
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