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Ethnographic Encounters in Israel

Poetics and Ethics of Fieldwork


Edited by Fran Markowitz

   "A compelling anthology on the dilemmas of doing ethnography in contemporary Israel.... Includes voices of both Jews and non-Jews, which is refreshing, and further complicates things by including Jews who don't study other Jews, as well as non-Jews who do study Jews.... Emphasizes the diversity of Israel, including discussion of communities not usually studied.... The willingness of the contributors to speak openly, bravely, and at times critically about their work makes this volume of great value as a contribution to anthropological debates on ethnographic fieldwork." -Ruth Behar, University of Michigan

   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.

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.


Indiana University Press

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http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/26700-ethnographic-encounters-in-israel.html

Jewish Poland Revisited
Heritage Tourism in Unquiet Places

Erica T. Lehrer

Finalist, 2013 National Jewish Book Awards, Modern Jewish Thought & Experience category

   "Since her first visit to Poland in 1990, Erica Lehrer has been exploring what might be called 'Jewish presence in Polish consciousness' in a country that was once home to the largest Jewish community in the world and now to one of the smallest. The result is a vivid ethnography and masterful analysis of Jewish heritage tourism in Poland today. Jewish Poland Revisited is a major contribution to the new anthropologies of Europe." -Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, New York University

   "Jewish Poland Revisited is a timely book on an important topic. Based on extensive fieldwork spanning over two decades, Lehrer's account of 'Jewish Poland' after the Fall of Communism is rich and nuanced, highlighting the subtle reconfigurations of complex, interwoven Polish and Jewish memoryscapes. Lehrer captures the mood of Krakow's Jewish district of Kazimierz at the crucial moment of its reinvention in the 1990s. In her vivid prose, all of the social and sensorial textures of the Jewish quarter come to life." -Geneviève Zubrzycki, University of Michigan

   Since the end of Communism, Jews from around the world have visited Poland to tour Holocaust-related sites. A few venture further, seeking to learn about their own Polish roots and connect with contemporary Poles. For their part, a growing number of Poles are fascinated by all things Jewish. Erica T. Lehrer explores the intersection of Polish and Jewish memory projects in the historically Jewish neighbourhood of Kazimierz in Krakow. Her own journey becomes part of the story as she demonstrates that Jews and Poles use spaces, institutions, interpersonal exchanges, and cultural representations to make sense of their historical inheritances.

Erica T. Lehrer is Associate Professor of History and Anthropology and Canada Research Chair in Post-Conflict Memory, Ethnography, and Museology at Concordia University, where she founded and directs the Centre for Ethnographic Research and Exhibition in the Aftermath of Violence.

Indiana University Press
July 2013 296pp 25 b&w illustrations 9780253008862 PB £17.99 now only £12.59 when you quote CS0314ANTH when you order

http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/26707-jewish-poland-revisited.html


Loyal Unto Death
Trust and Terror in Revolutionary Macedonia

Keith Brown

   "Engaging, theoretically sophisticated, and ethnographically detailed.... Makes a very complicated period of Balkan history admirably clear."-Loring M. Danforth, Bates College

   "This book is, to my mind, exactly the kind of work that needs to be done in order to understand civil wars, insurgencies, nationalism, and rebellions, and to get away from what the author rightfully critiques as 'pidgin social science.'"-Chip Gagnon, Ithaca College

   The underground Macedonian Revolutionary Organization recruited and mobilized over 20,000 supporters to take up arms against the Ottoman Empire between 1893 and 1903. Challenging conventional wisdom about the role of ethnic and national identity in Balkan history, Keith Brown focuses on social and cultural mechanisms of loyalty to describe the circuits of trust and terror - webs of secret communications and bonds of solidarity - that linked migrant workers, remote villagers, and their leaders in common cause. Loyalties were covertly created and maintained through acts of oath-taking, record-keeping, arms-trading, and in the use and management of deadly violence.

Keith Brown is Professor at Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies. He is author of The Past in Question: Modern Macedonia and the Uncertainties of Nation and editor of Transacting Transition: The Micropolitics of Democracy Assistance in the former Yugoslavia.

Indiana University Press
May 2013 282pp 13 b&w illustrations  9780253008404 PB £19.99 now only £13.99 when you quote CS0314ANTH when you order

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