Homelands and Diasporas: Holy Lands and Other Places
“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...
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This collection focuses fresh attention on the relationships between “homeland” and “diaspora” communities in today's world. Based on in-depth anthropological studies by leading scholars in the field, the book highlights the changing character of homeland-diaspora ties. Homelands and Diasporas offers new understandings of the issues that these communities face and explores the roots of their fascinating, yet sometimes paradoxical, interactions. The book provides a keen look at how “homeland” and “diaspora” appear in the lives of both Israeli Jews and Israeli Palestinians and also explores how these issues influence Pakistanis who make their home in England, Armenians in Cyprus and England, Cambodians in France, and African-Americans in Israel. The critical views advanced in this collection should lead to a reorientation in diaspora studies and to a better understanding of the often contradictory changes in the relationships between people whose lives are led both “at home and away.”
On homelands and diasporas : an introduction31The place which is diaspora : citizenship, religion, and gender in the making of chaordic transnationalism292New homeland for an old diaspora493A community that is both a center and a diaspora : Jews in late twentieth century Morocco684Rethinking the Palestinians abroad as a diaspora : the relationships between the diaspora and the Palestinian Territories975Transmission and transformation : the Palestinian second generation and the commemoration of the homeland1236Diasporization, globalization, and cosmopolitan discourse1407Commemoration and national identity : memorial ceremonies in Israeli schools1698Shifting boundaries : Palestinian women citizens of Israel in peace organizations2009From Ethiopian villager to global villager : Ethiopian Jews in Israel22010Ethnicity and diaspora : the case of the Cambodians24711Defrancophonisme in Israel : Bizertine Jews, Tunisian Jews27012Visit, separation, and deconstructing nostalgia : Russian students travel to their old home29613Claiming the pain, making a change : the African Hebrew Israelite community's alternative to the black diaspora321
\ From the Publisher"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\ \
