Thin Description : Ethnography and the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem / John L. Jackson Jr.
Jackson Jr., John L., author.
2013
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Title Thin Description : Ethnography and the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem / John L. Jackson Jr.
Author Jackson Jr., John L., author.
ISBN 9780674726253
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674726253
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2013]
Copyright ©2013
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (404 p.) : 8 halftones
Item Number 10.4159/harvard.9780674726253 doi
Dewey Decimal Classification 305.89605694
Summary 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 beyond the "modest witness" of nineteenth-century scientific discourse or the "thick descriptions" of twentieth-century anthropology, Jackson insists that Geertzian thickness is impossible, especially in a world where the anthropologist's subjects craft their own self-ethnographies and critically consume the ethnographer's offerings. Taking as its topic a group situated along the fault lines of several diasporas--African, American, Jewish--Thin Description provides an 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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Frontmatter
Contents
One. Passover
Two. Introductions
Three. Artscience
Four. Megiddo
Five. Chicago
Six. Exiles
Seven. Backstage
Eight. Analogies
Nine. Asiel
Ten. Hustling
Eleven. Ignorance
Twelve. YMCA
Thirteen. UnAfrican
Fourteen. Empress
Fifteen. Camps
Sixteen. Liberia
Seventeen. Visitations
Eighteen. Immortality
Nineteen. Jungle
Twenty. Thin
Twenty-One. Carrel
Twenty-Two. Orientalism
Twenty-Three. Digital
Twenty-Four. Children
Twenty-Five. Eden
Twenty-Six. Disciplining
Twenty-Seven. Zimreeyah
Twenty-Eight. Sincere
Twenty-Nine. Casein
Thirty. Prodigal
Thirty-One. Esau
Thirty-Two. Soul
Thirty-Three. Laughing
Thirty-Four. Occulted
Thirty-Five. Order
Thirty-Six. Genesis
Thirty-Seven. Insincerities
Thirty-Eight. Sumerians
Thirty-Nine. Munir
Forty. Brochure
Forty-One. Rabbi
Forty-Two. Hebrews
Forty-Three. Zombie
Forty-Four. MLK
Forty-Five. Seconds
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

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