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Highway 60 Visited: Part 2

Tags: Highway 60, Israel, Palestine, Price Tag, West Bank

Added on Monday, March 14th, 2011 to Articles and Featured sections.

This continues our special essay by our new editor, Assaf H. Part 1 was posted on Thur, March 3rd, please click here to read Part 1. Two units of security forces remained in the area. Partly police partly military unit, the notorious Border…

Highway 60 Visited: Part 1

Tags: Highway 60, Israel, Palestine, West Bank

Added on Friday, March 4th, 2011 to Articles and Featured sections.

Highway 60 coils through the southern hills of Hebron and Judea, dissolves into Jerusalem, reemerges from it toward Samaria, and as it nears the biblical Mounts of Blessing and Curse, it escapes the West Bank. Roughly reflecting the ancient Route…

Part 3: Eating Watermelon, Parsing Chaos

Tags: Palestine, U.S. news, Yasser Arafat

Added on Tuesday, February 9th, 2010 to Fieldnotes sections.

Research takes perseverance and grit, but there is no denying that it comes with certain pleasures, too. In Palestinian society, research feeds both mind and body. Once, I was interviewing two young men who were in a hurry to go on an afternoon…

Part II: So Many Interviewees, How Shall I Choose?

Tags: Journalism, Media, Palestine, refugees, U.S. news

Added on Friday, October 30th, 2009 to Fieldnotes sections.

This summer I’m doing interviews with Palestinian journalists and refugees in which I ask them to interpret and critique U.S. news articles. Why, you might ask, did I choose journalists and refugees as my commentators? Why didn’t I try to…

Findings, Part 4: sample from Issue #2 of Anthropology Now

Tags: diversity, Education, Iraq, Israel, Palestine, race, silence, tourism

Added on Monday, October 26th, 2009 to Findings sections.

Findings is a new, regular column contribution appearing in the magazine, Anthropology Now. Each column highlight emerging anthropological research through a series of short reviews co-authored and co-edited by a diverse student collective from The…

Re-Starting A Conversation

Tags: Jean Rouch, Media, Palestine, second Intifada, shared anthropology, U.S. news

Added on Monday, September 7th, 2009 to Fieldnotes sections.

This summer, after two years away, I’m back in my old field site, far from the Massachusetts university where I’ve just completed my first year of teaching. On the ride from Tel Aviv airport to Jerusalem, I take an informal census of the…

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