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Book SynopsisThis collection focuses attention on the relationships between "homeland" and "diaspora" communities in today's world. It highlights the changing character of homeland-diaspora ties and offers new understandings of the issues that these communities face and explores the roots of their fascinating, yet sometimes paradoxical, interactions
Trade Review"A stunning collection. Using the Israeli/Jewish/Palestinian problem as a central example and point of departure, the authors succeed in doing what classic anthropology does best: arguing a theoretical case from detailed ethnographic data but doing so in a context that is postmodern rather than merely modern. They engage currently fashionable ideas in a critical but constructive fashion, fusing their individually insightful analyses in a powerful vision of the complexities and unexpected developments that much earlier theorizing on these topics failed to anticipate or address." -Michael Herzfeld,Harvard University
Table of ContentsTable of Contents for Homelands and Diasporas List of Contributors Preface Introduction One Homelands and Diasporas: An Introduction, by Alex Weingrod and AndrA(c) Levy Part One: Changing Diasporas 1. The Place Which Is Diaspora: Citizenship, Religion, and Gender in the Making of Chaordic Transnationalism, by Pnina Werbner 2. New Homeland for an Old Diaspora, by Susan Pattie 3. A Community That Is Both a Center and a Diaspora: Jews in Late Twentieth Century Morocco, by AndrA(c) Levy 4. Rethinking the Palestinians Abroad as a Diaspora: The Relationships Between the Diaspora and the Palestinian Territories, by Sari Hanafi 5. Transmission and Transformation: The Palestinian Second Generation and the Commemoration of the Homeland, by Efrat Ben-Ze'ev 6. Diasporization, Globalization, and Cosmopolitan Discourse, by Jonathan Friedman Part Two: Changing Homelands and National Identities 7. Commemoration and National Identity: Memorial Ceremonies in Israeli Schools, by Avner Ben-Amos and Ilana Bet-El 8. Shifting Boundaries: Palestinian Women Citizens of Israel in Peace Organizations, by Hanna Herzog 9. From Ethiopian Villager to Global Villager: Ethiopian Jews in Israel, by Lisa Anteby-Yemini Part Three: Between Homeland and Diaspora: Spaces of Interaction 10. Ethnicity and Diaspora: The Case of the Cambodians, by Ida Simon-Barouh 11. DA(c)francophonisme in Israel: Bizertine Jews, Tunisian Jews, by Efrat Rosen-Lapidot 12. Visit, Separation, and Deconstructing Nostalgia: Russian Students Travel to Their Old Home, by Edna Lomsky-Feder and Tamar Rapoport 13. Claiming the Pain, Making a Change: The African Hebrew Israelite Community's Alternative to the Black Diaspora, by Fran Markowitz Index
