Kunin Juggling Identities

Identity and Authenticity Among the Crypto-Jews
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-231-51257-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Kunin, Seth

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte des Judentums (Diaspora)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Diversity and Complexity
2. The Case Against the Authenticity of Crypto-Judaism in New Mexico
3. The Case for the Authenticity of Crypto-Judaism in New Mexico
4. Ideal Types of Crypto-Jewish Identity
5. Crypto-Jewish Practice: Memory and Bricolage
6. A Postmodern Take on Crypto-Judaism
Conclusion
Theoretical Appendix. (Neo)-Structuralism: A Basis for Understanding the Transformative Use of Structure in Crypto-Jewish Culture
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Seth D. Kunin is pro vice chancellor, arts and humanities, at the University of Durham. He received his B.A. from Columbia University and MA from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and was awarded his Ph.D. in anthropology by the University of Cambridge. Kunin has been doing ethnographic research among the crypto-Jews in New Mexico for the past thirteen years. He has published a number of books on aspects of biblical and Jewish culture from an anthropological and structuralist perspective and has written about the development of theories of religion in such works as Themes and Issues in Judaism and Religion: The Modern Theories.