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Nationalism and the Israeli State
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Author_Don Handelman
Birthday Child
bureaucratic logic
bureaucratic logic in Israeli public events
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child national socialisation
Distant Spur
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Exact Age
Ghetto Fighter
Holocaust Remembrance Day
Home Front Command
Honor Guard
Independence Day
Israeli Jewish Nationalism
Israeli Jews
Israeli Landscape
Israeli memorial ceremonies
Israeli's history
Jewish Armed Resistance
Jewish Ethnicities
Memorial Gathering
Military Cemetery
military envelope
military memorialism
minority exclusion studies
Modern National
Mount Herzl
National Landscapes
Numerical Age
public event anthropology
Remembrance Day
ritualised social order
Social Surface
Speakers Of The Knesset
state ritual analysis
Yad Vashem
Yom HaShoah
Product details
- ISBN 9781859737804
- Weight: 570g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 Apr 2004
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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National festivals. Military parades. Patriotic memorials. Such public events and tributes naturally bring to mind the idea of nationalism. But what is the cultural logic behind them? How does a country such as Israel facilitate state-related public events as enactments of nationalism? To answer these questions, renowned anthropologist Don Handelman unpacks the meaning of national ritual and symbol in Israel today. He argues that public events mirror social order, a mirror that reflects to its participants and audiences the message that the designers of such events wish to communicate. Handelman considers the meaning of Holocaust and military memorialism, and he investigates the role of holiday celebrations, especially how they affect young children first learning about their country. Analyzing state ceremonies such as Holocaust Remembrance Day for the war dead, and Independence Day, he notes the absence of minorities and examines their significance in the promotion of a national identity. He also looks at how Israel exports powerful symbols of statehood. Throughout, Handelman develops his theory of bureaucratic logic as the driving force behind expressions of nationalism in the modern state. He argues that bureaucratic logic has a much wider cachet than simply functioning as a way of thinking only about bureaucratic institutions. The logic is crucial to how these institutions function, but more so, it is a dominant force in forming modern state social order. Bureaucratic logic is used incessantly to invent and to modify all kinds of systems of classification that often have profound consequences for individuals and for groups, and that are ritualized powerfully through a host of state-related public events.
Don Handelman is Professor of Anthropology and Sociology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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