Possession and Dispossession : : Performing Jewish Ethnography in Jerusalem.

• Author: Mauas, Lea.
• TeilnehmendeR: MacQueen, Michelle.; Rotman, Diego.
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin/Boston : : Walter de Gruyter GmbH,, 2022.; ©2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (312 pages)

When different types of knowledge and practice meet, they enrich each other. This book reflects on this meeting of divergent processes in Jerusalem. The contributions attempt to challenge the apparent division between contemporary art and ethnography, between tradition, preservation and representation, in an approach the editors call "contemporary ethnography," where the borders between ethnography and contemporary art are blurred.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Articles and Texts -- List of art works -- An Introduction -- The Museum of the Contemporary and the Ethnographic Department -- The Tawfiq Canaan Amulet Collection -- Heim: An Archival Film of the Moravian Church -- The Fragile Boundaries of Paradise -- Toward an Updated Ethnographic Questionnaire on Israeli Time -- Between Worlds: Dybbuks, Spirit Possessions and Demons, Angels and Maggidim -- The Many Worlds of The Dybbuk -- Dancing with the Dead: Possession and Nationalism in the Old-new Film Der Dybbuk, 1937-2017 -- Tisch -- "The Eternal Sabbath" - Electric Sabbath Candles: The History of a Folk Tradition from a Modernist Perspective -- The Wandering Jew's Home and a Temple Everywhere -- Diary for a Portable Landscape - Part I -- Civic Bi-longing: Politicization of the Domestic Site in Eternal Sukkah -- Diary for a Portable Landscape - Part II -- About China -- Activities for Children -- Contributors