Simulated Dreams

Zionist Dreams for Israeli Youth
Artikelnummer: 978-1-57181-821-8
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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 together in this provocative essay to provide a socio-anthropological agenda for some of the issues involved in the manufacturing of items of symbolic solidarity and common national imagery in an epoch of social disunification and cultural pastiche. The author argues that even though the aesthetic forms of major cultural idioms have unrecognizably altered and are accommodated to befit the shape and style of post-modern living, the basic programs underlying them have remained immutable. Furthermore, it is the quality of adaptability to changing aesthetic conventions that allow such symbolic corner-stones to be left unturned. The case of the youth culture is chose here as a yardstick for examining the double voice of such process - the global versus the tribal.

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 together in this provocative essay to provide a socio-anthropological agenda for some of the issues involved in the manufacturing of items of symbolic solidarity and common national imagery in an epoch of social disunification and cultural pastiche. The author argues that even though the aesthetic forms of major cultural idioms have unrecognizably altered and are accommodated to befit the shape and style of post-modern living, the basic programs underlying them have remained immutable. Furthermore, it is the quality of adaptability to changing aesthetic conventions that allow such symbolic corner-stones to be left unturned. The case of the youth culture is chose here as a yardstick for examining the double voice of such process - the global versus the tribal.

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VerlagBerghahn Books
EinbandFester Einband
Erscheinungsjahr2001
Seitenangabe130 S.
AusgabekennzeichenEnglisch
MasseH22.2 cm x B14.5 cm x D1.1 cm 304 g
AutorHazan, Haim

Über den Autor Haim Hazan

Haim Hazan is a social anthropologist, professor emeritus at Tel Aviv University currently serving as a co-director of The Minerva Centre for the Interdisciplinary Study of the End of Life. His academic work focuses mainly on old age and the life course. He is the author of numerous articles and books among which are : The Limbo People : A study of the Constitution of the Time Universe Among the Aged (Routledge 1980/2023); Managing Change in Old Age : The Control of Meaning in an Institutional Setting (Sate University of New York Press 1992); Old Age : Constructions and Deconstructions (Cambridge University Press 1994); From First Principles: An Experiment in Aging (Praeger 1996); Against Hybridity : Social Impasses in a Globalizing World (Polity 2015); Twilight Nationalism : Politics of Existence at Life's End (co-authored with Daniel Monterescu) ( Stanford University Press 2018); Suicide Social Dramas : Life-Giving Moral Breakdowns in the Israeli public Sphere (coauthored with Raquel Romberg ) (Routledge 2022).

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