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  • Ethnographic Encounters in Israel

    Poetics and Ethics of Fieldwork

    Edited by Fran Markowitz ...
    Essays on the challenges of anthropological work in a complicated country: "A compelling anthology." —Ruth BeharIsrael 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.These first-person accounts by anthropologists engage ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sarajevo

    A Bosnian Kaleidoscope

    by Fran Markowitz ...
    Series series Interp Culture New Millennium
    This fascinating urban anthropological analysis of Sarajevo and its cultural complexities examines contemporary issues of social divisiveness, pluralism, and intergroup dynamics in the context of national identity and state formation. Rather than seeing Bosnia-Herzegovina as a volatile postsocialist society, the book presents its capital city as a vibrant yet wounded center of multicultural ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Eating Religiously

    Food and Faith in the 21st Century

    Edited by Nir Avieli, Fran Markowitz ...
    This book, the first of its kind, critically analyzes the conjunctions of 21st century food, faith and society. It aims to provide a fresh approach that theorizes the culinary sphere in its association with morality, identity, justice and the sublime.In a changing climate of food fads, diet plans, gastropolitics and fusion tastes, this edited volume interrogates, analyzes and critiques various ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Homecomings

    Unsettling Paths of Return

    by Lisa Anteby-Yemini, Ruth Behar, Laura Hammond, Bayo Holsey, Éva V. Huseby-Darvas, André Levy, Susan Pattie, Takeyuki Tsuda ...
    Series series Program in Migration and Refugee Studies
    Despite the mass dislocation and repatriation efforts of the last century, the study of return movements still sits on the periphery of anthropology and migration research. Homecomings explores the forces and motives that drive immigrants, war refugees, political exiles, and their descendants back to places of origin. By including a range of homecoming experiences, Markowitz and Stefansson ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

  • Toward an Anthropology of Nation Building and Unbuilding in Israel

    by Alex Weingrod ...
    Series series Studies of Jews in Society
    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 ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

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    Towards Cultural Transformation

    by Marcelo Svirsky ...
    In this unique new contribution, Marcelo Svirsky asserts that no political solution currently on offer can provide the cultural marrow necessary to effect a transformation of modes of being and ways of life in the State of Israel.Controversially, Svirsky argues that the Zionist political project cannot be fixed - it is one that negatively affects the lives of its beneficiaries as well as of its ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Globalization of Israel

    McWorld in Tel Aviv, Jihad in Jerusalem

    by Uri Ram ...
    Series series Global Realities
    This book focuses on how globalization is impacting contemporary Israel. It is a concise and originally argued introduction to Israel, but the author, Uri Ram, is careful to frame his analysis in a broader discussion of Israeli history and broader social currents. Focusing in particular on two defining – and conflicting – contemporary trends; one toward advanced liberal democracy with a ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • The Multicultural Challenge in Israel

    by Avi Sagi, Ohad Nachtomy ...
    Delving into Israels multifaceted society, editors Avi Sagi and Ohad Nachtomy, along with their distinguished contributors, explore the many ethnic and religious communities that comprise modern Israel and the ways in which they interact and often misunderstand each other. Detailing both the tensions between Israelis and Arab minorities, as well as issues involving recent immigrants and the ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Israeli Identity

    Between Orient and Occident

    Edited by David Tal ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Society
    For many years before and after the establishment of the state of Israel, the belief that Israel is a western state remained unchallenged. This belief was founded on the predominantly western composition of the pre-statehood Jewish community known as the Yishuv. The relatively homogenous membership of Israeli/Jewish society as it then existed was soon altered with the arrival of hundreds of ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Tours That Bind

    Diaspora, Pilgrimage, and Israeli Birthright Tourism

    by Shaul Kelner ...
    Winner, 2010 Association for Jewish Studies Jordan Schnitzer Book Award2011 Honorable Mention for the American Sociological Association Culture Section's Mary Douglas Prize for Best BookSince 1999 hundreds of thousands of young American Jews have visited Israel on an all-expense-paid 10-day pilgrimage-tour known as Birthright Israel. The most elaborate of the state-supported homeland tours that ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Edward Said on the Prospects of Peace in Palestine and Israel

    by J. LeBlanc ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    John Randolph LeBlanc examines the political oeuvre of critic and activist Edward Said and finds that Said preferred "reconciliation" to segregation in Palestine/Israel. LeBlanc argues that Said's criticism speaks to the importance of negotiating the troubling, proximate, and unsettling presence of our most perplexing others. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Women of the Wall

    Navigating Religion in Sacred Sites

    by Yuval Jobani, Nahshon Perez ...
    In October of 2014, 12-year-old Sasha Lutt read from a tiny Torah scroll as a part of her bat mitzvah in the Women's section of the plaza at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site. Surrounded by members of the multi-denominational organization, the Women of the Wall, one of whom had smuggled the scroll into the plaza, Sasha became the first woman to read from the Torah at the site. For ... Read more

    $84.59 USD