ISBN:
9780253008565
,
9780253008619
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (x, 225 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Santa Fe, Arg e-libro 2013 Recurso electronico; Disponible via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Ethnographic Encounters in Israel : Poetics and Ethics of Fieldwork
DDC:
305.80095694
Keywords:
Anthropological ethics
;
Ethnology Methodology
;
Ethnology
;
Israel Social life and customs
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of 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
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
11 Falling in Love with a Criminal? On Immersion and Self-RestraintIndex
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Recurso electronico; Disponible via World Wide Web
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