ISBN:
9789004444003
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (304 pages)
Series Statement:
International Comparative Social Studies
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Abstract:
In Intercultural Friendship: The Case of a Palestinian Bedouin and a Dutch Israeli Jew Daniel J.N. Weishut offers an autoethnographic account of a friendship across the Israeli-Palestinian divide and analyzes divergent value orientations that appear in a series of stories.
Abstract:
Intro -- Intercultural Friendship: The Case of a Palestinian Bedouin and a Dutch Israeli Jew -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Illustrations -- Prologue -- Part 1: Autoethnography of an Intercultural Friendship -- Introduction to Part 1 -- 1 Writing about Oneself -- 1 Relevance and Intent -- 2 The Two Friends -- 2.1 Ahmad -- 2.2 Daniel -- 2.3 Our Friendship -- 3 A Case Study -- 3.1 Narrative Research -- 3.2 Friendship Research -- 3.3 Case Selection -- 4 Studying Stories -- 4.1 Observations as Data -- 4.2 Methodological Concerns -- 4.3 Cultural Relativism -- 2 When Cultures Meet -- 1 Identity and Value Orientations -- 1.1 Culture and Social Identity -- 1.2 Value Orientations -- 2 The Intercultural Encounter -- 2.1 Intercultural Communication -- 2.2 Intercultural Conflict -- 3 Honor and Aggression -- 3.1 Face and Honor -- 3.2 Aggression -- 3 The Worlds We Live In -- 1 My World -- 1.1 The Dutch -- 1.2 The Israelis -- 2 His World -- 2.1 The Palestinian Arabs -- 2.2 The Bedouins -- 3 Dealing with Conflict -- 3.1 The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict -- 3.2 Bedouins, Law, and Conflict -- 3.3 The "sulha" -- 4 All about Friendship -- 1 Patterns of Friendship -- 1.1 Characteristics -- 1.2 Gender and Culture -- 2 Intercultural Friendship -- 2.1 Commonalities -- 2.2 Opportunities for Interaction -- 3 Friendship in the Realm of Conflict -- 3.1 Jewish-Arab Dialogue -- 3.2 The Israeli Occupation -- Part 2: Four Cultural Dimensions -- Introduction to Part 2 -- 5 Individualism versus Collectivism -- 1 Perceptions of Friendship -- 1.1 Privacy and Togetherness -- 1.2 Who Is a Friend? -- 2 Getting Acquainted -- 2.1 Names -- 2.2 Greeting Behavior -- 3 Meals and Celebrations -- 3.1 Meals -- 3.2 Celebrations -- 4 Work Attitudes -- 4.1 Labor and Leisure -- 4.2 Child Labor -- 5 Friendship and Politics -- 5.1 The Wrong Side of Society.
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