Social Critique and Commitment Essays in Honor of Henry Rosenfeld

by Al-Haj, Majid; Saltman, Michael; Sobel, Zvi; Swirski, : Shlomo; Birebaum-Carmeli, Daphna; Carmeli, Yoran S.; Reiss, Nora; Khamaisi, Rassem; Atran, Scott; Hart, Keith; Lewis, Herbert S.; Marx, Emanuel; Rosenfeld, Maya; Kimmerling, Baruch; Yonay, Yuval; Wei

• ISBN13: 9780761831495
• ISBN10: 0761831495
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-03-15
• Publisher: UPA

Summary

Social Critique and Commitment: Essays in Honor of Henry Rosenfeld is a compilation of primarily original essays that deal with Israel from a critical position.

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
1967 as a Political-Economic Turning Point	1	(26)
Shlomo Swirski
The Political Culture of the Separation of Powers in Israel	27	(18)
Michael Saltman
Demography, Politics, and the 'Natural Family': Donor Insemination in Israel	45	(26)
Daphna Birenbaum, Carmeli and Yoram S. Carmeli
Rhetoric of the Destruction of the Israeli Welfare State	71	(22)
Nira Reiss
Education, Social Change, and Control: The Case of the Palestinians in Israel	93	(14)
Majid Al-Haj
Between Town and Village: Continuity and Change in Arab Localities in Israel	107	(16)
Rassem Khamaisi
Suicide Terrorism and America's Mission Impossible	123	(26)
Scott Atran
Some Reflections on Anthropology and Political Economy	149	(20)
Keith Hart
The Globalization of Spirit Possession	169	(24)
Herbert S. Lewis
The Bedouin's Lifeline: Roving Traders in South Sinai	193	(14)
Emanuel Marx
"Pleasures of Duty" of the Occupiers, "Duty of Sumud" of the Besieged: The Israeli Imposed Closure Regime in the Occupied West Bank	207	(30)
Maya Rosenfeld
The Dispersal, Ethnic Cleansing and Return of the Tatar People	237	(18)
Baruch Kimmerling
Why It's So Hard to Teach Radical Ideas: Some Reflections on the Sociology of (Radical) (Sociology) Teaching	255	(18)
Yuval Yonay
What Went Wrong?	273	(18)
Alex Weingrod
A Talk with Henry	291	(54)
Zvi Sobel
Henry Rosenfeld: Some Signposts and Bibliography	345	(8)
Contributors	353