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091096
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2009.
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The city's motto "I will build you and you will be rebuilt," from Jeremiah (31:4) is confronted and even challenged in literary depictions of Tel-Aviv. The mythology prevalent in the city's creation narrative is shattered through the use of urban tropes, such as the street, prostitution, urban sprawl, and the protagonist's isolation, and even eventual suicide, in fictional texts from the 1970s onwards. This article examines texts by Ya'akov Shabtai, Binyamin Tammuz, Yehudit Katzir, and Etgar Keret in which Tel-Aviv, in failing the unique ideology of the first Jewish city, becomes the genuine urban experience for which it was intended-a city like any other.
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164492
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The official Chinese view of the Uyghur Islamic revival is overwhelmingly dominant. Because of the extraordinary measures taken to shield from international view the actual developments in the region and to silence Uyghur voices, we lack a clear sense of what it is to be a Muslim in contemporary Xinjiang. This article explores debates within Uyghur society about faith, politics and identity as they are revealed through the social media platform WeChat. It aims to disrupt the dominant narratives and enable new understandings of the changing patterns of religiosity and violence in the region. It focuses on the use of social media to access affective experiences of religion, projects of self-fashioning, and the new geographies of knowledge and experience formed as Uyghurs turned to the readily available scripts circulating in the wider Islamic world and adapted them to a very local sense of crisis.
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177709
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This article brings together archival and ethnographic research to explore the ways that expressive culture and intangible cultural heritage flow across national borders, how transnational communities in Central Asia engage with discourses and practices of preservation and revitalization, and how local heritage initiatives can respond to the pressures of economic marginalization, migration, Islamization and cultural assimilation. Mäshräp gatherings involving music, dancing and joking have played a prominent role in modern imaginings of Uyghur national identity, and in local processes of community-making. Since 2009, Uyghurs in Kazakhstan have engaged in new forms of ‘heritaging’ mäshräp, attempting to revive their role as a medium for strengthening communities and sustaining language and culture. We argue that the unruly, affective and performative aspects of mäshräp are key to the success of these social goals, and we highlight their role as a space for the negotiation of tensions between religion, nation and hot sociality.
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169618
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“[T]he entire Uighur population is now regarded as a problem in need of an aggressive solution.”
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118536
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2012.
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Drawn from the biblical narrative, the image of Samson came to be used as a depiction of the self-sacrificing nationalistic ideal that dominated Zionist ideology. Though much has been said about the popular and widespread use of this image in Israeli society and culture, I contend that it was not solely his heroism, strength, and symbolic identity as the new Jew that marked this biblical figure for reuse in popular forums, but that his final suicide (martyred sacrifice) underpinned the drama of the Samson narrative. The symbolism of Samson soldiers willing to sacrifice themselves for the modern nation state altered as attitudes towards sacrifice for the collective changed. The heroism of the Samson myth collapsed, and subsequently was inverted, becoming a powerful tool for criticizing the Israeli military hegemony. This article traces a literary history of the changing narrative of the archetypal Samson.
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081046
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Hampshire, Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2007.
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xxv, 249p.
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Anthropology and cultural history in Asia and the Indo-Pacific
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9780754670414
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| Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
| 053148 | 305.894323/BEL 053148 | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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