In the company of others : the development of anthropology in Israel /
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| Author / Creator: | Abuhav, Orit, author. |
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| Uniform title: | Ḳarov etsel aḥerim. English |
| Imprint: | Detroit, Michigan : Wayne State University Press, [2015] ©2015 |
| Description: | xvii, 272 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Raphael Patai series in Jewish folklore and anthropology Raphael Patai series in Jewish folklore and anthropology. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10299727 |
| Summary: | In Israel, anthropologists have customarily worked in their "home"?in the company of the society that they are studying. In the Company of Others: The Development of Anthropology in Israel by Orit Abuhav details the gradual development of the field, which arrived in Israel in the early twentieth century but did not have an official place in Israeli universities until the 1960s. Through archival research, observations and interviews conducted with active Israeli anthropologists, Abuhav creates a thorough picture of the discipline from its roots in the Mandate period to its current place in the Israeli academy.<br> <br> Abuhav begins by examining anthropology's disciplinary borders and practices, addressing its relationships to neighboring academic fields and ties to the national setting in which it is practiced. Against the background of changes in world anthropology, she traces the development of Israeli anthropology from its pioneering first practitioners?led by Raphael Patai, Erich Brauer, and Arthur Ruppin?to its academic breakthrough in the 1960s with the foreign-funded Bernstein Israel Research Project. She goes on to consider the role and characteristics of the field's professional association, the Israeli Anthropological Association (IAA), and also presents biographical sketches of fifty significant Israeli anthropologists.<br> <br> While Israeli anthropology has historically been limited in the numbers of its practitioners, it has been expansive in the scope of its studies. Abuhav brings a firsthand perspective to the crises and the highs, lows, and upheavals of the discipline in Israeli anthropology, which will be of interest to anthropologists, historians of the discipline, and scholars of Israeli studies. |
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| Item Description: | "This book is based on my dissertation research about the development of anthropology in Israel at the Hebrew University's department of Sociology and Anthropology. A previous version of the book was published in Hebrew [under title: Ḳarov etsel aḥerim] (Abuhav 2010b)."--Page xv. |
| Physical Description: | xvii, 272 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-268) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780814338735 0814338739 9780814338742 |
