Ethnographic Encounters in Israel - by Fran Markowitz (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Caught up in pressing existential questions of war and peace, social justice, and national boundaries, the contributors explore the contours of Israeli society as insiders and outsiders, natives and strangers, as well as critics and friends.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Israel is a place of paradoxes, a small country with a diverse population and complicated social terrain. Studying its culture and social life means confronting a multitude of ethical dilemmas and methodological challenges. The first-person accounts by anthropologists engage contradictions of religion, politics, identity, kinship, racialization, and globalization to reveal fascinating and often vexing dimensions of the Israeli experience. Caught up in pressing existential questions of war and peace, social justice, and national boundaries, the contributors explore the contours of Israeli society as insiders and outsiders, natives and strangers, as well as critics and friends.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p><em>Ethnographic Encounters</em> offers outstanding ethnography, persuasively close to its subject but at the same time posing wider themes and questions vital to Israel and to the practice of anthropology in an intensely edgy contemporary society.</p></p>-- "Journal of Anthropological Research"<br><br><p>[I]ntroduces readers to a variety of ethnographic settings that are not often part of discussions about Israel.March 2015</p>-- "H-Judaic"<br><br><p>A collection of first-person accounts . . . [of the] contradictions of religion, politics, identity, kinship, racialization, and globalization in the fascinating and often vexing dimensions of the Israeli experience.Summer 2014</p>-- "Jewish Book World"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Fran Markowitz is Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. She is author of <i>Sarajevo: A Bosnian Kaleidoscope</i> and <i>Coming of Age in Post-Soviet Russia</i> and editor (with Michael Ashkenazi) of <i>Sex, Sexuality and the Anthropologist</i> and (with Anders H. Stefansson) of <i>Homecomings: Unsettling Paths of Return</i>.</p>
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