The collapse of Versailles and the nation-in-arms -- Bureaucratic logic -- Making Jews national in their citizenship -- Celebrations of the national : holiday occasions in kindergartens -- Celebrations of bureaucratic logic: Birthday parties in Israeli kindergartens -- Opening Holocaust Remembrance Day: the bureaucratic logic and aesthetics of national mourning -- Sequencing the national opening remembrance and and Independence Day -- The presence of absence: the memorialism of national absence -- Absence rising: telling little Holocaust stories, shaping the national
Summary
National festivals. Military parades. Patriotic memorials. Such public events and tributes naturally bring to mind the idea of nationalism. But what is the cultural logic behind them? How does a country such as Israel facilitate state-related public events as enactments of nationalism? To answer these questions, renowned anthropologist Don Handelman unpacks the meaning of national ritual and symbol in Israel today. He argues that public events mirror social order, a mirror that reflects to it s participants and audiences the message that the designers of such events wish to communicate. Hand
Analysis
Israel Juden Nationalismus
Israel Gedenkfeier Nationalismus
Israel Kulturelle Identität
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-263) and index
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