Moebius Anthropology

Essays on the Forming of Form
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-78920-854-2
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 364 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 678 g

Don Handelman’s groundbreaking work in anthropology is showcased in this collection of his most powerful essays, edited by Matan Shapiro and Jackie Feldman. The book looks at the intellectual and spiritual roots of Handelman’s initiation into anthropology; his work on ritual and on “bureaucratic logic”; analyses of cosmology; and innovative essays on Anthropology and Deleuzian thinking. Handelman reconsiders his theory of the forming of form and how this relates to a new theory of the dynamics of time. This will be the definitive collection of articles by one of the most important anthropologists of the late 20th Century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Handelman, Don

Shapiro, Matan

Feldman, Jackie

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Matan Shapiro

Part I: Some Significant Formative Influences

Chapter 1. Henry Rupert, Washo Shaman

Chapter 2. Tracing Bureaucratic Logic through Surprise and Abduction

Part II: Forming Form: Ritual and Bureaucratic Logic

Chapter 3. Why Ritual in Its Own Right? How So?

Chapter 4. Bureaucratic Logic

Chapter 5. Bureaucratic Logic, Bureaucratic Aesthetics: The Opening Event of Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes Remembrance Day in Israel

Part III: Cosmological Trajectories

Chapter 6. Passages to Play: Paradox and Process

Chapter 7. Framing Hierarchically, Framing Moebiusly

Chapter 8. Inter-gration and Intra-gration in Cosmology

Part IV: Deleuzian Intersections

Chapter 9. Self-Exploders, Self-Sacrifice, and the Rhizomic Organization of Terrorism

Chapter 10. Thinking Moebiusly: Can We Learn about Ritual from Cinema with Mulholland Drive?

Chapter 11. Folding and Enfolding Walls: Statist Imperatives and Bureaucratic Aesthetics in Divided Jerusalem

Epilogue: Forming Form, Folding Time (Toward Dynamics Through an Anthropology of Form)

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Handelman, Don
Don Handelman is the Sarah Allen Shaine Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Sociology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

Feldman, Jackie
Jackie Feldman is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, and head of the Rabb Center for Holocaust Studies. He researches pilgrimage and tourism, focusing on Jewish voyages to Poland, Christian pilgrimage to the Holy Land, and performance in Holocaust museums in Israel and Germany.

Shapiro, Matan
Matan Shapiro is Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Security, Economy and Planning at the University of Stavanger, Norway. His publications engage ethnographically and theoretically with topics such as kinship, ritual, play, and cosmology in Northeast Brazil; domestic securitization, pilgrimage, and cryptocurrency in Israel; and, currently, pandemic risk communication in Europe.

Don Handelman is the Sarah Allen Shaine Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Sociology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.