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May 02, 2024
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ANTHR 3438 - Jewish Ethnography(crosslisted) (also JWST 3938 , NES 3938 )(GB) (CA-AS) Fall. 4 credits. Letter grades only.
Co-meets with ANTHR 6438 /JWST 6938 /NES 6938 .
J. Boyarin.
The anthropology of Jews, Jewishness and Judaism is a wonderful laboratory for studying vital issues in the study of culture and society: textuality and orality; gender, reproduction and the cycle of generations; tradition, modernity and postmodernity; diaspora and the state; genetics and the politics of identity; forms of difference in the metropole and in colonialism. Until recent decades, there were almost no serious ethnographies of Jewish communities. Today there is a rich new literature in this field. We will read widely to become familiar with this new literature, exploring the politics of ethnography; memoir as an ethnographic source; reflexive and auto-Jewish ethnographies; traditionalist and modernist communities; and communities spread widely through Europe, North America, North Africa and the Middle East.
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