Zionist Arabesques : : Modern Landscapes, Non-Modern Texts / / Hadas Yaron.
Zionist Arabesques is an ethno-historical account of the landscape of the Jezreel Valley in Israel and explores how the modern landscape of the valley has been created, both physically and symbolically, from the perspective of both local and large-scale processes. It addresses not only the guiding p...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Backlist eBook-Package 2008-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2010] ©2010 |
| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Israel: Society, Culture, and History
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (250 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Notes on transliteration, translation and archives
- Acknowledgments
- Table of Contents
- Introduction: The Field, the Ethnography and the Anthropologist
- Chapter One: Conventional and Environmental Agriculture: The Modern, Anti Modern and Non Modern Landscapes
- Chapter Two: From Europe to the Middle East: Blossoming the Desert, Cultivating the Land of Israel
- Chapter Three: The State as a Plot: Who Owns the Land, Who Plans the Landscape
- Conclusions: Writing the Ethnographic Text: The Power of Words
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index