Ethnographic Encounters in Israel
Poetics and Ethics of Fieldwork
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press
- Initial publish date
- Jun 2013
- Category
- Israel, Cultural, Jewish Studies
-
Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780253008565
- Publish Date
- Jun 2013
- List Price
- $105.00
-
Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780253008619
- Publish Date
- Jun 2013
- List Price
- $39.00
Add it to your shelf
Where to buy it
Description
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 society as insiders and outsiders, natives and strangers, as well as critics and friends.
About the authors
Hilla Nehushtan's profile page
Virginia R. Dominguez's profile page
John N. Jackson is Professor Emeritus of Applied Geography at Brock University and has authored many books on the Welland Canals.
Jasmin Habib is an associate professor in Department of Political Science at the University of Waterloo.
Editorial Reviews
A collection of first-person accounts . . . [of the] contradictions of religion, politics, identity, kinship, racialization, and globalization in the fascinating and often vexing dimensions of the Israeli experience.Summer 2014
Jewish Book World
[I]ntroduces readers to a variety of ethnographic settings that are not often part of discussions about Israel.March 2015
H-Judaic
Ethnographic Encounters offers outstanding ethnography, persuasively close to its subject but at the same time posing wider themes and questions vital to Israel and to the practice of anthropology in an intensely "edgy" contemporary society.
Journal of Anthropological Research