Three Jewish Journeys Through an Anthropologist’s Lens : : From Morocco to the Negev, Zion to the Big Apple, the Closet to the Bimah / / Moshe Shokeid.

Three Jewish Journeys Through an Anthropologist’s Lens provides an overview of the ethnographic works carried out by a leading Israeli anthropologist over the course of his career. It presents Moshe Shokeid’s explorations, discoveries, and feelings about the vicissitudes of social life, which he clo...

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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, , [2009]
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Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
Series:Judaism and Jewish Life
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Physical Description:1 online resource (400 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • PART ONE. INTRODUCTION
  • CHAPTER 1. AN ANTHROPOLOGIST’S WORK BETWEEN MOVING GENRES
  • PART TWO. MOROCCAN JEWS IN ISRAEL
  • CHAPTER 2. JEWISH EXISTENCE IN A BERBER ENVIRONMENT
  • CHAPTER 3. THE EMERGENCE OF PSEUDO-KIN FACTIONS IN IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES
  • CHAPTER 4. THE REGULATION OF AGGRESSION IN DAILY LIFE: AGGRESSIVE RELATIONSHIPS AMONG MOROCCAN IMMIGRANTS IN ISRAEL
  • CHAPTER 5. THE IMPACT OF MIGRATION ON THE MOROCCAN JEWISH FAMILY IN ISRAEL
  • CHAPTER 6. THE DECLINE OF PERSONAL ENDOWMENT OF ATLAS MOUNTAINS RELIGIOUS LEADERS IN ISRAEL
  • CHAPTER 7. CULTURAL ETHNICITY IN ISRAEL: THE CASE OF MIDDLE EASTERN JEWS’ RELIGIOSITY
  • PART THREE. ISRAELIS IN AMERICA
  • CHAPTER 8. ONE NIGHT STAND ETHNICITY: THE MALAISE OF ISRAELI-AMERICANS
  • CHAPTER 9. THE PEOPLE OF THE SONG
  • CHAPTER 10. FROM THE ANTHROPOLOGIST’S POINT OF VIEW: STUDYING ONE’S OWN TRIBE
  • CHAPTER 11. IN THE COMPANY OF AMERICAN JEWS: AN ISRAELI OBSERVER IN A LOWER EAST SIDE SYNAGOGUE
  • PART FOUR. GAY JEWS
  • CHAPTER 12. THE TALMUD CIRCLE: IDENTITIES IN CONFLICT
  • CHAPTER 13. “THE WOMEN ARE COMING”: THE TRANSFORMATION OF GENDER RELATIONSHIPS IN A GAY SYNAGOGUE
  • CHAPTER 14. WHEN THE CURTAIN FALLS ON A FIELDWORK PROJECT: THE LAST CHAPTER OF A GAY SYNAGOGUE STUDY
  • CHAPTER 15. CLOSETED COSMOPOLITANS: ISRAELI GAYS BETWEEN CENTER AND PERIPHERY
  • PART FIVE. ON METHODOLOGY
  • CHAPTER 16. NEGOTIATING MULTIPLE VIEWPOINTS THE COOK, THE NATIVE, THE PUBLISHER AND THE ETHNOGRAPHIC TEXT
  • CHAPTER 17. WHAT IS THERE TO A NAME? THE ETHNOGRAPHER AND HIS MOROCCAN SUBJECTS IN SHOKEIDA
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX OF NAMES
  • INDEX OF SUBJECTS