Ethnographic Encounters in Israel: Poetics and Ethics of Fieldwork

by Fran Markowitz

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253008611
• ISBN13: 9780253008619
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips)
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher