The Desert Experience in Israel Communities, Arts, Science, and Education in the Negev

by Hare, A. Paul; Kressel, Gideon M.

• ISBN13: 9780761848400
• ISBN10: 0761848401
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-09-29
• Publisher: UPA

Summary

This book shares the responses of settlers, artists, poets, scientists, and educators who lived near the Blaustein Institute in the Negev Desert of Israel as they answer the question, What difference has living in the desert year round made in your work?

Author Biography

A. Paul Hare is an emeritus professor of sociology and Gideon M. Kressel is a professor of anthropology. Both are members of the Blaustein Institute for Desert Research, Midreshet, Israel.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
The Desert Experience	p. 1
Communities in the Desert	p. 7
A Call for Desert Communities and Science	p. 9
The First Days at Kibbutz Revivim	p. 13
The Pioneer at Kibbutz Sde Boqer	p. 19
What is a Desert?	p. 25
Midbar, Shmama, and Garbage Can	p. 27
The Conquest of the Desert and the Settlement Ethos	p. 33
The Perception of the Four Winds	p. 45
Inspiration	p. 53
Religion and the Desert	p. 55
The Arts	p. 59
Photographs	p. 59
Angels in the Desert	p. 64
A visit with Binah Kahana
Translated from the German
Theater	p. 67
Literature	p. 71
Sculpture	p. 76
Sculpture	p. 77
Poetry	p. 81
Poetry	p. 84
Bedouin Poetry	p. 86
Linguistic and Ethnographic Observations on the Color Categories of the Negev Bedouin	p. 91
Research	p. 117
Founding of the Institute for Desert Research	p. 119
Desert Research	p. 139
Solar Power Plants	p. 139
Solar Surgery	p. 143
Fossil Water	p. 147
Microalgae	p. 151
Runoff Agriculture	p. 155
Fish	p. 157
Desert Architecture	p. 160
Apology for Architecture, or The Planner's Craft	p. 163
Education and Scholarship	p. 171
Environmental High School	p. 173
Field School	p. 177
Ben-Gurion Research and Heritage Institutes	p. 181
References	p. 189
Name Index	p. 203
Subject Index	p. 207
About the Contributors	p. 209
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