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1 online resource |
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UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
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| Contents |
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 Ethnography |
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5 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 Israel |
| Summary |
Israel 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 so |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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English |
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Print version record |
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Ethnology -- Fieldwork -- Israel
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Ethnology -- Israel -- Methodology
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Anthropological ethics -- Israel
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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HISTORY -- Middle East -- Israel.
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Anthropological ethics
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Ethnology -- Fieldwork
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Ethnology -- Methodology
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Manners and customs
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| SUBJECT |
Israel -- Social life and customs
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Israel
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dissertations.
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Academic theses
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Academic theses.
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Thèses et écrits académiques.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Markowitz, Fran.
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| LC no. |
2013002205 |
| ISBN |
9780253008893 |
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0253008891 |
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1299636381 |
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9781299636385 |
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