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Going to the People : Jews and the Ethnographic Impulse / edited by Jeffrey Veidlinger.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethnology--Europe, Eastern--Congresses.
- Ethnology.
- Jewish folk literature--Congresses.
- Jewish folk literature.
- Folk literature, Yiddish--Congresses.
- Folk literature, Yiddish.
- Jewish folklorists--Europe, Eastern--Congresses.
- Jewish folklorists.
- Jews--Social life and customs--Congresses.
- Jews.
- Jews--Europe, Eastern--Social life and customs--Congresses.
- Europe, Eastern--Ethnic relations--Congresses.
- Europe, Eastern.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (275 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington, Indiana ; Indianapolis, Indiana : Indiana University Press, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- They reveal how the collection, analysis, and preservation of ethnography intersect with questions about the construction and delineation of community, the preservation of Jewishness, the meaning of belief, the significance of retrieving cultural heritage, the politics of accessing and memorializing "lost" cultures, and the problem of narration, among other topics.
- Contents:
- Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. History of the Ethnographic Impulse; 1. Thrice Born; or, Between Two Worlds: Reflexivity and Performance in An-sky's Jewish Ethnographic Expedition and Beyond; 2. Between Scientific and Political: Jewish Scholars and Russian-Jewish Physical Anthropology in the Fin-de-Siècle Russian Empire; 3. "To Study Our Past, Make Sense of Our Present and Develop Our National Consciousness": Lev Shternberg's Comprehensive Program for Jewish Ethnography in the USSR
- 4. "What Should We Collect?": Ethnography, Local Studies, and the Formation of a Belorussian Jewish Identity5. Yiddish Folklore and Soviet Ideology during the 1930s; 6. After An-sky: I. M. Pul'ner and the Jewish Section of the State Museum of Ethnography in Leningrad; 7. "Sacred Collection Work": The Relationship between YIVO and Its Zamlers; 8. The Last Zamlers: Avrom Sutzkever and Shmerke Kaczerginski in Vilna, 1944-1945; Part II. Findings from the Field; 9. Ethnography and Folklore among Polish Jews in Israel: Immigration and Integration
- 16. From Function to Frame: The Evolving Conceptualization of Jewish Folklore StudiesList of Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Selected papers presented at a conference held at Indiana University in February 2013.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-253-01916-8
- OCLC:
- 938017443
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