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      Simulated Dreams: Zionist Dreams for Israeli Youth

      Haim Hazan

      At the core of the author’s concern stands the question of cultural transmutation in an era riddled with media channels and all-embracing messages. Fragments of the Israeli experience are pieced…

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      The limbo people

      Haim Hazan

      First published in 1980, The limbo people is based upon research carried out in a day centre ('the Centre') for elderly Jewish people in a London Borough and studies the…

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      Simulated Dreams: Zionist Dreams for Israeli Youth

      Haim Hazan

      In light of the curve balls the times are throwing at the identity, priorities, and world views of young Israelis, Hazan (social anthropology, Tel Aviv U.) constructs an ethnographically informed…

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      Managing Change in Old Age: The Control of Meaning in an Institutional Setting

      Haim Hazan

      This book is an ethnographic study of an old age home in Israel that sheds light on the existential experience of elderly retirees. Hazan looks carefully at the universal concerns…

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      Managing Change in Old Age: The Control of Meaning in an Institutional Setting

      Haim Hazan

      This book is an ethnographic study of an old age home in Israel that sheds light on the existential experience of elderly retirees. Hazan looks carefully at the universal concerns…

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      From First Principles: An Experiment in Ageing

      Haim Hazan

      Gathering together in a structured curriculum of seminars and discussion groups and calling themselves the University of the Third Age, the elders intellectually reexamine the spectrum of sociocultural and epistemological…

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      Against Hybridity: Social Impasses in a Globalizing World

      Haim Hazan

      One of the major characteristics of our contemporary culture is a positive, almost banal, view of the transgression and disruption of cultural boundaries. Strangers, migrants and nomads are celebrated in…

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      Against Hybridity: Social Impasses in a Globalizing World

      Haim Hazan

      One of the major characteristics of our contemporary culture is a positive, almost banal, view of the transgression and disruption of cultural boundaries. Strangers, migrants and nomads are celebrated in…

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      Old Age: Constructions and Deconstructions

      Haim Hazan (Tel-Aviv University)

      Haim Hazan, a specialist on old age in anthropology, focuses on the reality of the experience of old age as opposed to the stereotyped image. He examines the subject from…

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      Serendipity in Anthropological Research: The Nomadic Turn

      Haim Hazan

      Serendipity in Anthropological Research explores the role of fortune and happenstance in anthropology. It conceives of anthropological research as a lifelong nomadic journey of discovery in which the world yields…

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      Twilight Nationalism: Politics of Existence at Life’s End

      Daniel Monterescu,Haim Hazan

      The city of Jaffa presents a paradox: intimate neighbors who are political foes. The official Jewish national tale proceeds from exile to redemption and nation-building, while the Palestinians’ is one…

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      Serendipity in Anthropological Research: The Nomadic Turn

      Haim Hazan

      Serendipity in Anthropological Research explores the role of fortune and happenstance in anthropology. It conceives of anthropological research as a lifelong nomadic journey of discovery in which the world yields…

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      Marking Evil: Holocaust Memory in the Global Age

      This volume addresses manifestations of Holocaust-engendered global discourse by critically examining their function and inherent dilemmas, and the ways in which Holocaust related matters still instigate public debate and academic…

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      Suicide Social Dramas

      Haim Hazan, Raquel Romberg

      Through an ethnohistorical chronicling of the emotionally-laden treatment of selected suicide media-events, this book offers a neo-Durkheimian account of suicide, addressing its social-moral threat and the ensuing need to gloss…

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      Marking Evil: Holocaust Memory in the Global Age

      Talking about the Holocaust has provided an international language for ethics, victimization, political claims, and constructions of collective identity. As part of a worldwide vocabulary, that language helps set the…

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      Twilight Nationalism: Politics of Existence at Life’s End

      Daniel Monterescu,Haim Hazan

      The city of Jaffa presents a paradox: intimate neighbors who are political foes. The official Jewish national tale proceeds from exile to redemption and nation-building, while the Palestinians’ is one…

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      Suicide Social Dramas: Life-Giving Moral Breakdowns in the Israeli Public Sphere

      Haim Hazan (Tel Aviv University, Israel),Raquel Romberg (Tel Aviv University, Israel)

      Through an ethnohistorical chronicling of the emotionally-laden treatment of selected suicide media-events, this book offers a neo-Durkheimian account of suicide, addressing its social-moral threat and the ensuing need to gloss…

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