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1 online resource (xiv, 175 pages) |
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Acknowledgments; Prologue Part I: Friendship and Ideology Chapter 1. The Case of Fraternal Friendship; Chapter 2. Re'ut : Friendship in Zionist Ideology Part II: Friendship in Everyday Life Chapter 3. History and Destiny: Friendship Narratives; Chapter 4. Two Styles of Sharing: The Hevreman and the Intellectual; Chapter 5. Public Intimacy and the Miscommunication of Desire Part III: Sacred Friendship Chapter 6. David, Jonathan, and Other Soldiers: The Hegemonic Script for Male Bonding; Chapter 7." Shalom, haver ": Commemoration as Desire Discussion: Nationalism, Friendship, and Commemorative Desire Appendix I: Studying a National Emotion; Appendix II: Table of Interviewees Bibliography |
| Summary |
Annotation Some semi-public, exclusive male settings, most noticeably in the military, encourage the production of intimacy and desire. Yet whereas in most instances this desire is displaced through humor and aggressive gestures, it becomes acknowledged and outright declared once associated with sites of heroic death. In his provocative study of interrelations between friendship in everyday life and national sentiments in Israel, the author follows selected stories of friendship ranging over early childhood, school, the workplace, and some unique war experiences. He explores the symbolism of friendship in rituals for the fallen soldiers, the commemoration of Prime Minister Yzhak Rabin, and the national infatuation with recovering bodies of missing soldiers. He concludes that the Israeli case offers an extreme instance of a much broader cultural phenomenon: declaring the friendship for the dead epitomizes the political "blood pact" between men, taking precedence over the traditional blood ties of kinship and heterosexual unions. The book underscores nationalism as a homosocial-based emotion of commemorative desire |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-172) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Men -- Israel -- Psychology
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Male friendship -- Israel
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Nationalism -- Israel
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Nationalism & Patriotism.
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Male friendship
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Men -- Psychology
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Nationalism
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Israel
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781782389378 |
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1782389377 |
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