Serendipity in Anthropological Research: The Nomadic Turn PDF
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Serendipity in AnthropologicAl reSeArch For Emanuel Marx, a mentor of nomadism with an anthropological home Serendipity in Anthropological research the nomadic turn Edited by hAim hAzAn Tel Aviv University, Israel and eSther hertzog Beit Berl Academic College, Israel © haim hazan and esther hertzog, and the contributors 2012 All rights reserved. no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher. haim hazan and esther hertzog have asserted their right under the copyright, designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the editors of this work. published by Ashgate publishing limited Ashgate publishing company Wey court east Suite 420 Union road 101 cherry Street Farnham Burlington Surrey, gU9 7pt Vt 05401-4405 england USA www.ashgate.com British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Serendipity in anthropological research : the nomadic turn. 1. Anthropology—research. 2. Anthropology—research—case studies. 3. Anthropology—Fieldwork—case studies. 4. Serendipity in science. i. hazan, haim. ii. hertzog, esther. 301’.072–dc22 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data hazan, haim. Serendipity in anthropological research : the nomadic turn / by haim hazan and esther hertzog. p. cm. includes index. iSBn 978-1-4094-3058-2 (hardback : alk. paper) — iSBn 978-1-4094-3059-9 (ebook) 1. Anthropology—research. 2. Anthropology—philosophy. 3. Serendipity—philosophy. i. hertzog, esther. ii. title. gn42.h39 2011 301.072—dc23 2011028483 iSBn 9781409430582 (hbk) iSBn 9781409430599 (ebk) IV printed and bound in great Britain by the mpg Books group, UK. Contents List of Figures and Table ix List of Contributors xi Acknowledgements xv Foreword xvii Introduction: Towards a Nomadic Turn in Anthropology 1 Haim Hazan, Esther Hertzog Part I NavIgatIoN 1 Errancy in Ethnography and Theory: On the Meaning and Role of ‘Discovery’ in Anthropological Research 15 Ugo Fabietti 2 The Growth of a Conception: Nomads and Cities 31 Emanuel Marx 3 Seductive Communities: On Non-representational Constructions 47 Haim Hazan Part II MIrage 4 Israeli Soldiers, Japanese Children: Fieldwork and the Dynamics of Participant-Observation and Reflection 65 Eyal Ben-Ari 5 Privileged and Volatile Nomadism 81 Shifra Kisch 6 Becoming a Triple Stranger: Autoethnography of a Kibbutznik’s Long Journey to Discoveries of Researchers’ Faults 93 Reuven Shapira 7 Some Cautionary Tales from an Anthropological Romance with Jews from Libya 109 Harvey E. Goldberg vi Serendipity in Anthropological Research 8 Moving Fieldwork: Ethnographic Experiences in the Israeli-Palestinian space 123 Cédric Parizot Part III the JourNey 9 Spiritual Travels, Social Knowledge: Entering the Space of Tuareg Possession 141 Susan Rasmussen 10 Flying Witches, Embodied Memories, and the Wanderings of an Anthropologist 157 Raquel Romberg 11 The Anthropologist as a Nomad in Dangerous Fields and the Emergence of Cultural Criminology 175 Dina Siegel 12 The Straw in Anthropologists’ Boots: Studying Nobility in Poland 185 Longina Jakubowska Part Iv WaNderINg 13 The Cosmopolitan Movement of the Global Guest 199 Nigel Rapport 14 Social Science under Siege: The Middle East 213 Dale F. Eickelman 15 The Suspicious Anthropologist: Documenting my Mother’s Holocaust 229 Esther Hertzog Part v oases 16 The Significance of Colours in Pastoral Bedouin Society 247 Aref Abu-Rabi’a 17 The Structure of Bedouin Society in the Negev: Emanuel Marx’s Bedouin of the Negev Revisited 257 Frank H. Stewart Contents vii 18 Bones of Contention 291 Alex Weingrod 19 Through the Kaleidoscope: Looking Back at the Prison 307 Ofra Greenberg Index 319 This page has been left blank intentionally List of Figures and Table Figures 10.1 Flying witches (drawing by Jack Delano, published in Vidal 1989) 163 10.2 A magic work hanging from a cross 166 10.3 Tonio describing the trabajos he used to make 170 10.4 Tonio’s hands 170 10.5 Tonio, the Brujo of Loíza 171 14.1 Social science as social thought: opportunities and constraints 217 17.1 Zullam descent groups 268 Table 17.1 Population of the Abu Gwe‘id tribe and its attached groups in mid-1961 267
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