@article{810459,
      recid = {810459},
      author = {Markowitz, Fran, and Sharot, Stephen, and Shokeid, Moshe,},
      title = {Toward an anthropology of nation building and unbuilding  in Israel /},
      pages = {1 online resource (352 pages) :},
      abstract = {"Toward an Anthropology of Nation Building and Unbuilding  in Israel presents twenty-two original essays offering a  critical survey of the anthropology of Israel inspired by  Alex Weingrod, emeritus professor and pioneering scholar of  Israeli anthropology. In the late 1950s Weingrod's  groundbreaking ethnographic research of Israel's  underpopulated south complicated the dominant social  science discourse and government policy of the day by  focusing on the ironies inherent in the project of Israeli  nation building and on the process of migration prompted by  social change. Drawing from Weingrod's perspective, this  collection considers the gaps, ruptures, and juxtapositions  in Israeli society and the cultural categories undergirding  and subverting these divisions. Organized into four parts,  the volume examines our understanding of Israel as a place  of difference, the disruptions and integrations of  diaspora, the various permutations of Judaism, and the role  of symbol in the national landscape and in Middle Eastern  studies considered from a comparative perspective. These  essays illuminate the key issues pervading, motivating, and  frustrating Israel's complex ethnoscape.  "--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/810459},
}