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Anthropology & Political Science Anthropology & Anthropology & Law James M. Donovan and H. Edwin Anderson, III Anthropology & Mass Communication: Media and Myth in the New Millennium Mark Allen Peterson Anthropology & Political Science: A Convergent Approach Myron J. Aronoff and Jan Kubik A & NTHROPOLOGY P S OLITICAL CIENCE A Convergent Approach Myron J. Aronoff & Jan Kubik Berghahn Books New York • Oxford Published in 2013 by Berghahn Books www.berghahnbooks.com © 2013 Myron J. Aronoff and Jan Kubik All rights reserved. Except for the quotation of short passages for the purposes of criticism and review, no part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system now known or to be invented, without written permission of the publisher. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Aronoff, Myron Joel. Anthropology and political science : a convergent approach / Myron J. Aronoff and Jan Kubik. p. cm. — (Anthropology &) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-85745-725-7 (hardback : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-85745-726-4 (e-book) 1. Anthropology—Methodology. 2. Political science—Methodology. I. Aronoff, Myron J. II. Kubik, Jan. III. Title. GN33.A76 2012 301—dc23 2012001691 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Printed in the United States on acid-free paper ISBN 978-0-85745-725-7 (hardback) ISBN 978-0-85745-726-4 (ebook) In loving memory of Rita and to Martha with love C ONTENTS List of Tables ix List of Figures xi Acknowledgements xii Preface xv Chapter 1 Introduction 1 Chapter 2 Methods: Ethnography and Case Study 23 Chapter 3 Beyond Political Culture 60 Chapter 4 Symbolic Dimensions of Politics: Political Ritual and Ceremonial 86 Chapter 5 The Politics of Collective Identity: Contested Israeli Nationalisms 110 Chapter 6 Democratization in Deeply Divided Societies: The Netherlands, India, and Israel 132 Chapter 7 Camp David Rashomon: Contested Interpretations of the Israel/Palestine Peace Process 171 viii Contents Chapter 8 What Can Political Scientists Learn about Civil Society from Anthropologists? 198 Chapter 9 Homo sovieticus and Vernacular Knowledge 240 Chapter 10 Conclusions 279 Bibliography 286 Name Index 326 Subject Index 334 T ABLES Table 2.1. Location of ethnographic studies in the studies of power and politics 27 Table 2.2. Five types of ethnography 29 Table 2.3. Three dimensions of the ethnographic subject 42 Table 3.1. Types of symbols 70 Table 3.2. Logos versus Mythos 72 Table 3.3. Characteristics of traditional rituals, secular rituals, and ceremonies 75 Table 3.4. Dimensions of rhetoric 76 Table 3.5. Custom and invented tradition 79 Table 4.1. Ideal type classical distinctions between traditional and modern societies 89 Table 5.1. Types of nationalism 126 Table 6.1. Cultural and political forms of accommodation and control in fi ssured societies 136 Table 8.1. Legal transparent civil society (ideal type of civil society) and “incomplete” civil societies (secondary groups) 205 Table 8.2. Extreme fl aws undermining linkages among civil society and other polity domains 208 Table 8.3. Civil society attributes, their “non-civil” counterparts, and hybrid solutions 218

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