Milk and honey : technologies of plenty in the making of a Holy Land / / Tamar Novick

• Autore: Novick Tamar
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, MA : , : The MIT Press, , 2023
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (320 pages)
• Disciplina: 338.1/6
• Soggetto topico: Agricultural innovations - Israel - History; Agricultural innovations - Palestine - History; Agricultural innovations - Religious aspects; Agriculture - Religious aspects; Technology - Religious aspects
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: An 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Milk and honey
• ISBN: 0-262-37456-0; 0-262-37455-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910901881603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II