Ethnographic Encounters in Israel Poetics and Ethics of Fieldwork

Introduction: Edgy Ethnography in a Little Big PlaceFran Markowitz
Part I.Confrontations and Conversions
1. How Christian Pilgrims Made Me IsraeliJackie Feldman
2. Mission Not Accomplished: Negotiating Power Relations and Vulnerability Among Messianic Jews in IsraelTamir Erez
3. Doing Dimona: An Americanist Anthropologist in an Africanized IsraelJohn L. Jackson, Jr.
Part II. State Categories and Global Flows
4. Seeking Truth in Hip Hop Music and Hip Hop EthnographyUri Dorchin
5. The State of the Family: Eldercare as a Practice of Corporal Symbiosis by Filipina Migrant WorkersKeren Mazuz
6. Diasporas Collide: Competing Holocausts, Imposed Whiteness and the Seemingly Jewish non-Jew Researcher in IsraelGabriella Djerrahian
Part III. Fieldwork to the Point of Worry
7. Traveling Between Reluctant Neighbors: Researching with Jews and Bedouin Arabs in the Northern NegevEmily McKee
8. On the Matter of Return to Israel/Palestine: Autoethnographic ReflectionsJasmin Habib
9. Some Kind of Masochist: Fieldwork in Unsettling TerritoryJoyce Dalsheim
10. The Impurities of Experience: Researching Prostitution in IsraelHilla Nehushtan
11. Falling in Love with a Criminal? On Immersion and Self-RestraintVirginia R. Dominguez