This book brings together insights derived from a detailed exploration of Israeli cultural patterns of communication, highlighting their role in the processes of culture formation, maintenance, and change. Katriel’s ethnographic examples provide a richly-textured account of Israeli cultural experience, illustrating the potential of a cultural analysis grounded in the study of ideologically-informed communicative practices.
The author addresses central issues in contemporary anthropology and human communication studies such as the identification of cultural communication patterns in ethnographic research, conceptualizations of the notions of culture and community, the rhetorical force of cultural communication forms, the role of ritualization in communication and social processes, the critical potential of ethnographic work, and the ethnographer’s stance in studying one’s own culture.
Table of Content
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. Gibush: The Crystallization Metaphor in Israeli Cultural Semantics
3. Kiturim: Griping as a Verbal Ritual in Israeli Discourse
4. Rhetoric in Flames: Fire Inscriptions in Israeli Youth Movement Ceremonials
5. Picnics in a Military Zone: Rituals of Parenting and the Politics of Consensus
6. ‘For Our Young Listeners’: Rhetorics of Participation on Israeli Radio
7. Brogez: Ritual and Strategy in Israeli Children’s Conflicts
8. Behibudim! Ritualized Sharing Among Israeli Children
9. Hahlafot: Rules and Strategies in Israeli Children’s Swapping Exchanges
10. Sodot: Secret-Sharing as a Social Form Among Israeli Children
11. By Way of Conclusion
References
Index
About the author
Tamar Katriel is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Education, University of Haifa, Israel. She is the author of
Talking Straight: ‘Dugri’ Speech in Israeli Sabra Culture.
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