Entangled histories in Palestine/Israel : historical and anthropological perspectives

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Entangled histories in Palestine/Israel : historical and anthropological perspectives

edited by Dafna Hirsch ; translated (in part) by Ursula Wokoeck

(Routledge studies in Middle Eastern history, 26)

Routledge, 2024

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Summary:"This edited volume offers a new critical approach to the study of Zionist history and Israeli-Palestinian relations, based on the encounter between history and anthropology. Informed by the anthropological method of setting large questions to intimate settings, the book examines processes of Zionist colonization, nation-building and Palestinian dispossession by focusing on encounters between members of different national, religious and ethnic groups "from below"-through paying close attention to life stories and reconstructing everyday practices and micro-histories of places and communities. Thus, it tells a complex story in which the practices of historical actors are not simply reducible to a single underlying logic of colonization, even as they participate in the production and reproduction of colonial structures. This approach effectively undermines the prevailing tendency to study national communities in isolation, projecting onto the past an essentialist and rigid separation. Rather than assumi

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents of Works

  • Introduction : Entangled histories through a magnifying glass / Dafna Hirsch
  • The violent struggle over land : the beginning of the Zionist armed-settlement strategy, 1908-1914 / Daniel DeMalach and Lev Luis Grinberg
  • "The same sea" : Jews and Palestinians on the beach in the late Ottoman and mandate periods / Boaz Lev Tov
  • Miracles and snow in Palestine and Israel : Tantura, a History of 1948 / Alon Confino
  • Coping with the present past : personal recollection among Palestinian internally displaced persons / Rana Awaysi
  • Accumulation and surveillance : the military rule in Lydda, July 1948-July 1949 / Benny Nuriely
  • The first act in the struggle of the Ma'barot, 1951-1952 : contestation amid subjection / Gadi Algazi
  • When "human material" says no : noncompliance, resistance, and protest among the settlers of the Lakhish Project, 1954-1962 / Smadar Sharon
  • Reconstructing the labor process : the Of-Ar Factory, 1961-1979 / Shani Bar-On Maman
  • The men who knew too much : sardines, skills, and the labor process in Jaffa, 1948-1979 / Naor Ben-Yehoyada
  • Palestine's absent cities : gender, memoricide, and the silencing of urban Palestinian memory / Manar Hasan
  • Discourse of separation : taboos and depoliticization in Haifa's guided tours / Regev Nathansohn
  • Silenced in history? Naqab Bedouin women and their narratives of the past / Safa Aburabia

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