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This book is a result of the growing public and academic interest
in the variety of childhoods that take place side by side in the
multicultural state of Israel, despite its tiny geographical
dimensions. In a collection of groundbreaking articles, the book
describes various features of Israeli childhoods - in the present
and recent past - in both Arab and Jewish societies. The first
section of the book - 'Childhood and Environment in Israel' -
addresses the various spaces in which childhood practices occurred
and still occur in Israel - the intimate home environment, the
educational environment, playgrounds, and many others. The second
section - 'Childhoods and Power Structures in Israeli Literature'
illuminates the perceptions and images of childhood, and describes
the extensive and heterogenic variety of childhood representations
in Jewish and Arab literature. Scholars of culture, society,
education, and literature - Jews and Arabs - have joined forces to
encourage in-depth thinking about perceptions of childhood in the
diverse Israeli society, the status of children in Arab and Jewish
societies, and the resources invested to nurture them from a global
aspect (as individuals with universal duties and rights) and/or a
local point of view (as a national asset, as designers of the
nation's future, or, alternatively, as a burden, nuisance or
threat).
In Israel, anthropologists have customarily worked in their
""home""-in the company of the society that they are studying. In
the Company of Others: The Development of Anthropology in Israel by
Orit Abuhav details the gradual development of the field, which
arrived in Israel in the early twentieth century but did not have
an official place in Israeli universities until the 1960s.Through
archival research, observations and interviews conducted with
active Israeli anthropologists, Abuhav creates a thorough picture
of the discipline from its roots in the Mandate period to its
current place in the Israeli academy. Abuhav begins by examining
anthropology's disciplinary borders and practices, addressing its
relationships to neighboring academic fields and ties to the
national setting in which it is practiced. Against the background
of changes in world anthropology,she traces the development of
Israeli anthropology from its pioneering first practitioners-led by
Raphael Patai, Erich Brauer, and Arthur Ruppin-to its academic
breakthrough in the 1960s with the foreign-funded Bernstein Israel
Research Project. She goes on to consider the role and
characteristics of the field's professional association, the
Israeli Anthropological Association (IAA), and also presents
biographical sketches of fifty significant Israeli anthropologists.
While Israeli anthropology has historically been limited in the
numbers of its practitioners, it has been expansive in the scope of
its studies. Abuhav brings a first-hand perspective to the crises
and the highs, lows, and upheavals of the discipline of Israeli
anthropology, which will be of interest to anthropologists,
historians of the discipline, and scholars of Israeli studies.
This title surveys past and present research on Israeli
anthropology for students and researchers. While Israel is a small
country, it has a diverse and continually changing society. As a
result, since the 1960s Israeli anthropology has been a fertile
ground for researchers. This collection introduces readers to the
diverse field of social anthropology in Israel today, pointing to
both its rich history and promising future. Drawing upon recent
research as well as a few key older articles, editors Esther
Hertzog, Orit Abuhav, Harvey E. Goldberg, and Emanuel Marx have
selected contributors that highlight different theoretical
perspectives and touch on a variety of relevant topics.
""Perspectives on Israeli Anthropology"" begins with an
introduction that traces the development of social anthropology in
Israel from its beginnings in Palestine prior to Israeli statehood
to the present. The essays in this volume are divided into five
major thematic sections, including the effects of immigration, the
influence of bureaucracies in social life, the negotiation of the
social order, tensions between Jewish Israelis and Palestinian
Arabs, and notions of 'Israeliness' and 'Jewishness'. The essays
offer compelling research and a variety of perspectives on changing
senses of identity, ethnicity, religiosity, and gender relations in
a society deeply affected by war, violence, and dispossession.
While the contributors in this volume adhere to various theoretical
and ethnographic traditions, they all treat Israel as a complex,
modern, and open society with much to offer other scholars.
""Perspectives on Israeli Anthropology"" will provide an
illuminating overview of the discipline for students, teachers, and
researchers in the field of social anthropology.
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