03654nam 2200637Ia 450 991046570800332120200520144314.00-253-00889-1(CKB)2560000000102014(EBL)1207316(SSID)ssj0000886029(PQKBManifestationID)12448856(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000886029(PQKBWorkID)10815866(PQKB)10506194(MiAaPQ)EBC1207316(OCoLC)847527210(MdBmJHUP)muse29112(Au-PeEL)EBL1207316(CaPaEBR)ebr10716189(CaONFJC)MIL494888(EXLCZ)99256000000010201420130123d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrEthnographic encounters in Israel[electronic resource] poetics and ethics of fieldwork /edited by Fran MarkowitzBloomington Indiana University Press20131 online resource (238 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-253-00861-1 0-253-00856-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 Ethnography5 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 Israel11 Falling in Love with a Criminal? On Immersion and Self-RestraintIndexIsrael 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 religion, politics, identity, kinship, racialization, and globalization to reveal fascinating and often vexing dimensions of the Israeli experience. Caught up in pressing existential questions of war and peace, social justice, and national boundaries, the contributors explore the contours of Israeli soEthnologyIsraelFieldworkEthnologyIsraelMethodologyAnthropological ethicsIsraelIsraelSocial life and customsElectronic books.EthnologyEthnologyMethodology.Anthropological ethics305.80095694Markowitz Fran949653MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910465708003321Ethnographic encounters in Israel2146461UNINA