LEADER 03853nam 22005413 450 001 9910901881603321 005 20221212100811.0 010 $a0-262-37456-0 010 $a0-262-37455-2 035 $a(CKB)5580000000532227 035 $a(OCoLC)1353637895 035 $a(OCoLC-P)1353637895 035 $a(MaCbMITP)11649 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC30178419 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL30178419 035 $a(EXLCZ)995580000000532227 100 $a20221207d2023 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||unuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aMilk and honey $etechnologies of plenty in the making of a Holy Land /$fTamar Novick 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aCambridge, MA :$cThe MIT Press,$d2023 215 $a1 online resource (320 pages) 225 0 $aInside technology 311 08$a0-262-03907-9 327 $aIntro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Land Flowing with Milk and Honey -- Interlude: Bygone Buffalo and Lingering Value-A Prehistory of Plenty -- 1 Bible, Bees, and Boxes: Technologies of Movement and Obstruction -- 2 Getting Their Goat -- 3 The Rise and Fall of Hebrew Shepherding -- 4 Holy Cow! Milk Yield and the Burdens of the "New Jewess" -- 5 Urine and Gold: Infertility Research and the Limits of Plenty -- Conclusion: The Synesthetic Experience -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. 330 $aAn innovative historical analysis of the intersection of religion and technology in making the modern state, focusing on bodily production and reproduction across the human-animal divide. In Milk and Honey, Tamar Novick writes a revolutionary environmental history of the state that centers on the intersection of technology and religion in modern Israel/Palestine. Focusing on animals and the management of their production and reproduction across three political regimes -- the late-Ottoman rule, British rule, and the early Israeli state -- Novick draws attention to the ways in which settlers and state experts used agricultural technology to recreate a biblical idea of past plenitude, literally a "land flowing with milk and honey," through the bodies of animals and people. Novick presents a series of case studies involving the management of water buffalo, bees, goats, sheep, cows, and people in Palestine/Israel. She traces the intimate forms of knowledge and bodily labor -- production and reproduction -- in which this process took place, and the intertwining of bodily, political, and environmental realms in the transformation of Palestine/Israel. Her wide-ranging approach shows technology never replaced religion as a colonial device. Rather, it merged with settler-colonial aspirations to salvage the land, bolstering the effort to seize control over territory and people. Fusing technology, religious fervor, bodily labor, and political ecology, Milk and Honey provides a novel account of the practices that defined and continue to shape settler-colonialism in the Palestine/Israel, revealing the ongoing entanglement of technoscience and religion in our time. 606 $aAgricultural innovations$zIsrael$xHistory 606 $aAgricultural innovations$zPalestine$xHistory 606 $aAgricultural innovations$xReligious aspects 606 $aAgriculture$xReligious aspects 606 $aTechnology$xReligious aspects 615 0$aAgricultural innovations$xHistory. 615 0$aAgricultural innovations$xHistory. 615 0$aAgricultural innovations$xReligious aspects. 615 0$aAgriculture$xReligious aspects. 615 0$aTechnology$xReligious aspects. 676 $a338.1/6 700 $aNovick$b Tamar$01772656 801 0$bOCoLC-P 801 1$bOCoLC-P 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910901881603321 996 $aMilk and honey$94274065 997 $aUNINA