Ethnographic Encounters in Israel: Poetics and Ethics of Fieldwork
Author(s): Fran Markowitz (Editor), Hilla Nehushtan (Contributor), Joyce Dalsheim (Contributor), Keren Mazuz (Contributor), Virginia R. Dominguez (Contributor), Tamir Erez (Contributor), John Jackson (Contributor), Uri Dorchin (Contributor), Jackie Feldman (Contributor), Jasmin Habib (Contributor), Emily McKee (Contributor), Gabriella Djerrahian (Contributor)
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication Date: 11 Jun. 2013
Language: English
Print length: 240 pages
ISBN-10: 0253008565
ISBN-13: 9780253008565
Book Description
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.
Editorial Reviews
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
Review
A compelling anthology on the diversity of contemporary Israel by a wide range of insightful observers who challenge conventional images. The willingness of the contributors to speak openly, bravely, and critically about the dilemmas of doing research in Israel makes this volume of great value as a contribution to anthropological debates on ethnographic fieldwork.
— Ruth Behar
Book Description
Challenges and dilemmas of studying life in Israel
About the Author
Fran Markowitz is Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. She is author of Sarajevo: A Bosnian Kaleidoscope and Coming of Age in Post-Soviet Russia and editor (with Michael Ashkenazi) of Sex, Sexuality and the Anthropologist and (with Anders H. Stefansson) of Homecomings: Unsettling Paths of Return.
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