The African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem are often dismissed as a
fringe cult for their beliefs that African Americans are
descendants of the ancient Israelites and that veganism leads to
immortality. But John L. Jackson questions what "fringe" means in a
world where cultural practices of every stripe circulate freely on
the Internet. In this poignant and sophisticated examination of the
limits of ethnography, the reader is invited into the visionary,
sometimes vexing world of the AHIJ. Jackson challenges what
Clifford Geertz called the "thick description" of anthropological
research through a multidisciplinary investigation of how the AHIJ
use media and technology to define their public image in the
twenty-first century. Moving far beyond the "modest witness" of
nineteenth-century scientific discourse or the "thick descriptions"
of twentieth-century anthropology, Jackson insists that Geertzian
thickness is an impossibility, especially in a world where the
anthropologist's subject is a self-aware subject--one who crafts
his own autoethnography while critically consuming the
ethnographer's offerings. Thin Description takes as its topic a
group situated along the fault lines of several diasporas--African,
American, Jewish--and provides an anthropological account of how
race, religion, and ethnographic representation must be understood
anew in the twenty-first century lest we reenact old mistakes in
the study of black humanity.
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