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Explores the contours of Israeli society as insiders and outsiders, natives and strangers, as well as critics and friends

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Ethnographic Encounters 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.

* Journal of Anthropological Research *

[I]ntroduces readers to a variety of ethnographic settings that are not often part of discussions about Israel.March 2015

* H-Judaic *

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

* Jewish Book World *

Table of Contents

Introduction: Edgy Ethnography in a Little Big Place Fran Markowitz

Part I. Confrontations and Conversions
1. How Christian Pilgrims Made Me Israeli Jackie Feldman
2. Mission Not Accomplished: Negotiating Power Relations and Vulnerability Among Messianic Jews in Israel Tamir Erez
3. Doing Dimona: An Americanist Anthropologist in an Africanized Israel John L. Jackson, Jr.

Part II. State Categories and Global Flows
4. Seeking Truth in Hip Hop Music and Hip Hop Ethnography Uri Dorchin
5. The State of the Family: Eldercare as a Practice of Corporal Symbiosis by Filipina Migrant Workers Keren Mazuz
6. Diasporas Collide: Competing Holocausts, Imposed Whiteness and the Seemingly Jewish non-Jew Researcher in Israel Gabriella Djerrahian

Part III. Fieldwork to the Point of Worry
7. Traveling Between Reluctant Neighbors: Researching with Jews and Bedouin Arabs in the Northern Negev Emily McKee
8. On the Matter of Return to Israel/Palestine: Autoethnographic Reflections Jasmin Habib
9. Some Kind of Masochist: Fieldwork in Unsettling Territory Joyce Dalsheim
10. The Impurities of Experience: Researching Prostitution in Israel Hilla Nehushtan
11. Falling in Love with a Criminal? On Immersion and Self-Restraint Virginia R. Dominguez

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      Publisher: Indiana University Press
      Publication Date: 11/06/2013
      ISBN13: 9780253008565, 978-0253008565
      ISBN10: 0253008565
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Explores the contours of Israeli society as insiders and outsiders, natives and strangers, as well as critics and friends

      Trade Review

      Ethnographic Encounters 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.

      * Journal of Anthropological Research *

      [I]ntroduces readers to a variety of ethnographic settings that are not often part of discussions about Israel.March 2015

      * H-Judaic *

      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

      * Jewish Book World *

      Table of Contents

      Introduction: Edgy Ethnography in a Little Big Place Fran Markowitz

      Part I. Confrontations and Conversions
      1. How Christian Pilgrims Made Me Israeli Jackie Feldman
      2. Mission Not Accomplished: Negotiating Power Relations and Vulnerability Among Messianic Jews in Israel Tamir Erez
      3. Doing Dimona: An Americanist Anthropologist in an Africanized Israel John L. Jackson, Jr.

      Part II. State Categories and Global Flows
      4. Seeking Truth in Hip Hop Music and Hip Hop Ethnography Uri Dorchin
      5. The State of the Family: Eldercare as a Practice of Corporal Symbiosis by Filipina Migrant Workers Keren Mazuz
      6. Diasporas Collide: Competing Holocausts, Imposed Whiteness and the Seemingly Jewish non-Jew Researcher in Israel Gabriella Djerrahian

      Part III. Fieldwork to the Point of Worry
      7. Traveling Between Reluctant Neighbors: Researching with Jews and Bedouin Arabs in the Northern Negev Emily McKee
      8. On the Matter of Return to Israel/Palestine: Autoethnographic Reflections Jasmin Habib
      9. Some Kind of Masochist: Fieldwork in Unsettling Territory Joyce Dalsheim
      10. The Impurities of Experience: Researching Prostitution in Israel Hilla Nehushtan
      11. Falling in Love with a Criminal? On Immersion and Self-Restraint Virginia R. Dominguez

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