Communal Webs: Communication and Culture in Contemporary IsraelSUNY Press, 1991 M01 1 - 226 pages 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. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Gibush The Crystallization Metaphor in Israeli Cultural Semantics | 11 |
Kiturim Griping as a Verbal Ritual In Israeli Discourse | 35 |
Rhetoric in Flames Fire Inscriptions in Israeli Youth Movement Ceremonials | 51 |
Picnics in a Military Zone Rituals of Parenting and the Politics of Consensus | 71 |
For Our Young Listeners Rhetorics of Participation on Israeli Radio | 93 |
Brogez Ritual and Strategy in Israeli Childrens Conflicts | 123 |
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