Dance and Authenticity in Israel and Palestine: Performing the Nation"Dance and Authenticity" is an ethnography of dance performance and cultural form. It describes how "dabkeh," a type of dance performed at Palestinian weddings, became a model for the Israeli Jewish "debkah" as a means of affirming Israeli Jewish belonging and common society. The Palestinian "dabkeh," in turn, acquired nationalist meanings, especially after the 1967 war and the occupation of the West Bank. The book traces the history of these competing, and conflicting, dance forms, basing the argument principally on the ethnographic study of two Palestinian and one Israeli Jewish dance group conducted between 1998 and 1999. The result is a fascinating parallel ethnography, showing how the ethnography of dance forms contributes to evolving notions of collective national and political identity in a context of unequal power. |
Avis des internautes - Rédiger un commentaire
Aucun commentaire n'a été trouvé aux emplacements habituels.
Autres éditions - Tout afficher
Dance and Authenticity in Israel and Palestine: Performing the Nation Elke Kaschl Aucun aperçu disponible - 2003 |
Dance and Authenticity in Israel and Palestine: Performing the Nation Elke Kaschl Aucun aperçu disponible - 2003 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
Abu Jum'ah activities Al-Asayyel al-Bireh Arab dabkeh Arab dance Arab group artistic audience authentic Author's interview Ayalah Goren Bank and Gaza Barghouthi choreographies constituted contrast dabkeh group dabkeh/debkah dance groups dance leaders dance style debkah Deir el-Asad El-Funoun El-Funoun members emerged ensemble ethnic female dancers female members festival folklore Galilee Gaza gender girls Hebrew Histadrut historic immigrants Ingber interaction Interview conducted intifada invented ISBN 90 Israel and Palestine Israeli and Palestinian Israeli Arabs Israeli folk dance Israeli Jewish Israeli Jewish officials Israeli occupation Israeli-Palestinian issue Jews Kadman Karmei Makhol Karmei Makhol dancers Karmi'el kibbutz late nineties male members Mandatory Palestine means modern movement norms organized Palestinian Arab Palestinian nationalism participate performance political presentations Ramallah raqs rehearsals relations role Rouhana settlement shabab Similarly social songs staging dabkeh started Tel Aviv territories tion tradition troupe West Bank women Yahya Yiftachel Zionist
Fréquemment cités
Page 13 - In this sense, gender is in no way a stable identity or locus of agency from which various acts proceed; rather, it is an identity tenuously constituted in time - an identity instituted through a stylized repetition of acts.
Page 15 - Every group, then, will entrust to bodily automatisms the values and categories which they are most anxious to conserve. They will know how well the past can be kept in mind by a habitual memory sedimented in the body.
Page 4 - This entails the radically disturbing recognition that it is only through the relation to the Other, the relation to what it is not, to precisely what it lacks, to what has been called its constitutive outside that the 'positive' meaning of any term - and thus its 'identity' - can be constructed (Derrida, 1981; Laclau, 1990; Butler, 1993).
Page 37 - The spiritual, on the other hand, is an "inner" domain bearing the "essential" marks of cultural identity. The greater one's success in imitating Western skills in the material domain, therefore, the greater the need to preserve the distinctness of one's spiritual culture.
Page 14 - When performativity materializes as performance in that risky and dangerous negotiation between a doing (a reiteration of norms) and a thing done (discursive conventions that frame our interpretations), between someone's body and the conventions of embodiment, we have access to cultural meanings and critique.
Page 73 - It is a disaster in every sense of the word and one of the harshest of the trials and tribulations with which the Arabs have been afflicted throughout their long history — a history marked by numerous trials and tribulations.
Page 317 - Cultural Constructs" and other Fantasies: Imagined Narratives in Imagined Communities', Surrejoinder to Gershoni and Jankowski's "Print Culture, Social Change, and the Process of Redefining Imagined Communities in Egypt", International Journal of Middle East Studies, 1999, 31, 1, Feb.
Page 46 - Aristotelian physics — light, air, water and earth — were measured out to us very sparingly. In the narrow Jewish street our poor limbs soon forgot their gay movements; in the dimness of sunless houses our eyes began to blink shyly; the fear of constant persecution turned our powerful voices into frightened whispers, which rose in a crescendo only when our martyrs on the stakes cried out their dying prayers in the face of their executioners.
Page 46 - But now, all coercion has become a memory of the past, and at least we are allowed space enough for our bodies to live again. Let us take up our oldest traditions; let us once more become deepchested, sturdy, sharp-eyed men.
Page 10 - Palestinian political scientist Ibrahim Abu-Lughod seems to have been warning against a decade ago when he rebuked historians of Palestine for assuming that it is impossible to "study the historical development of the Palestinian Arab community at any particular point in modern times without taking immediate cognizance of the presence — effective or fictitious of the Jewish community as represented by the Zionist movement.

