Going Underground: The Meanings of Death and Burial for Minority Groups in Israel
By (author) Talia Shay
Paperback (Published)
(February 2021)
ISBN: 9781789696196
6.1 x 9.25 inches
Price: $28.00
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This volume is about the attitudes towards death and burial in contemporary society. It provides information on the attitudes of several minority groups living in Israel today, including four communities of Russian Jews, an ultra-religious Jewish community and a Palestinian-Christian community.
Going Underground: The Meanings of Death and Burial for Minority Groups in Israel is about the attitudes towards death and burial in contemporary society. It provides information on the attitudes of several minority groups living in Israel today, including four communities of Russian Jews, an ultra-religious Jewish community and a Palestinian-Christian community. ‘Going Underground’ has a double meaning: it refers to the actions taken by archaeologists to inquire about the past and present and involves digging and recording. Second, it considers the challenges and protests launched by the groups of immigrants and minorities mentioned in the book, against state-control over death.
Preface and acknowledgments ;
Reflections on death and burial ;
Methodology: The northern cemetery ;
The interviews: The northern cemetery ;
The urban cemetery, kibbutz cemetery and public cemeteries ;
A nominalist approach: Archaeology of remembrance and contemporary archaeology ;
Conclusion: The assemblage theory, or is there an anthropology of death and burial?
- By (author) Talia Shay
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