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Going to the People [electronic resource]

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Title Going to the People [electronic resource] : Jews and the Ethnographic Impulse / edited by Jeffrey Veidlinger.
Publisher Bloomington, Indiana
Indianapolis, Indiana : Indiana University Press
Creation Date 2016
Notes Includes index.
Selected papers presented at a conference held at Indiana University in February 2013.
English
Content 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
Extent 1 online resource (275 p.)
Language English
Copyright Date ©2016
National Library system number 997010719515105171
MARC RECORDS
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