Thin description : ethnography and the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem /
Author / Creator: | Jackson, John L., Jr., 1971- author. |
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Imprint: | Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2013. ©2013 |
Description: | 1 online resource (vii, 394 pages) : illustrations |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11209446 |
Summary: | The African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem are often dismissed as a fringe cult for their beliefs that African Americans are descendants of the ancient Israelites and that veganism leads to immortality. But John L. Jackson questions what "fringe" means in a world where cultural practices of every stripe circulate freely on the Internet. In this poignant and sophisticated examination of the limits of ethnography, the reader is invited into the visionary, sometimes vexing world of the AHIJ. Jackson challenges what Clifford Geertz called the "thick description" of anthropological research through a multidisciplinary investigation of how the AHIJ use media and technology to define their public image in the twenty-first century. |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vii, 394 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-375) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780674726253 0674726251 9780674049666 0674049667 |