Ethnographic Encounters in Israel
Poetics and Ethics of Fieldwork
Published on 11. June 2013
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-0-253-00856-5 (ISBN)
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.
Reviews / Votes
"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"[I]ntroduces readers to a variety of ethnographic settings that are not often part of discussions about Israel.March 2015"-H-Judaic
"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
"A compelling anthology on the diversity of contemporary Israel by a wide range of insightful observers who challenge conventional images. The willingness of the contributors to speak openly, bravely, and critically about the dilemmas of doing research in Israel makes this volume of great value as a contribution to anthropological debates on ethnographic fieldwork."-Ruth Behar, author of An Island Called Home: Returning to Jewish Cuba
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Language
English
Place of publication
Bloomington, IN
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Paper over boards
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5 b&w illus.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
503 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-253-00856-5 (9780253008565)
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Persons
Fran Markowitz is Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. She is author of Sarajevo: A Bosnian Kaleidoscope and Coming of Age in Post-Soviet Russia and editor (with Michael Ashkenazi) of Sex, Sexuality and the Anthropologist and (with Anders H. Stefansson) of Homecomings: Unsettling Paths of Return.
Content
Introduction: Edgy Ethnography in a Little Big PlaceFran Markowitz
Part I.Confrontations and Conversions
1. How Christian Pilgrims Made Me IsraeliJackie Feldman
2. Mission Not Accomplished: Negotiating Power Relations and Vulnerability Among Messianic Jews in IsraelTamir Erez
3. Doing Dimona: An Americanist Anthropologist in an Africanized IsraelJohn L. Jackson, Jr.
Part II. State Categories and Global Flows
4. Seeking Truth in Hip Hop Music and Hip Hop EthnographyUri Dorchin
5. The State of the Family: Eldercare as a Practice of Corporal Symbiosis by Filipina Migrant WorkersKeren Mazuz
6. Diasporas Collide: Competing Holocausts, Imposed Whiteness and the Seemingly Jewish non-Jew Researcher in IsraelGabriella Djerrahian
Part III. Fieldwork to the Point of Worry
7. Traveling Between Reluctant Neighbors: Researching with Jews and Bedouin Arabs in the Northern NegevEmily McKee
8. On the Matter of Return to Israel/Palestine: Autoethnographic ReflectionsJasmin Habib
9. Some Kind of Masochist: Fieldwork in Unsettling TerritoryJoyce Dalsheim
10. The Impurities of Experience: Researching Prostitution in IsraelHilla Nehushtan
11. Falling in Love with a Criminal? On Immersion and Self-RestraintVirginia R. Dominguez
Part I.Confrontations and Conversions
1. How Christian Pilgrims Made Me IsraeliJackie Feldman
2. Mission Not Accomplished: Negotiating Power Relations and Vulnerability Among Messianic Jews in IsraelTamir Erez
3. Doing Dimona: An Americanist Anthropologist in an Africanized IsraelJohn L. Jackson, Jr.
Part II. State Categories and Global Flows
4. Seeking Truth in Hip Hop Music and Hip Hop EthnographyUri Dorchin
5. The State of the Family: Eldercare as a Practice of Corporal Symbiosis by Filipina Migrant WorkersKeren Mazuz
6. Diasporas Collide: Competing Holocausts, Imposed Whiteness and the Seemingly Jewish non-Jew Researcher in IsraelGabriella Djerrahian
Part III. Fieldwork to the Point of Worry
7. Traveling Between Reluctant Neighbors: Researching with Jews and Bedouin Arabs in the Northern NegevEmily McKee
8. On the Matter of Return to Israel/Palestine: Autoethnographic ReflectionsJasmin Habib
9. Some Kind of Masochist: Fieldwork in Unsettling TerritoryJoyce Dalsheim
10. The Impurities of Experience: Researching Prostitution in IsraelHilla Nehushtan
11. Falling in Love with a Criminal? On Immersion and Self-RestraintVirginia R. Dominguez