War bodies, hedonist bodies

Dialectics of the collective and the individual in Israeli society

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2467683
AutoresMeira Wei, Meira Weiss (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, autor de correspondencia)
Año1997
Volumen24
Número4
Páginas813-832
Fecha de publicación1997-11-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAmerican Ethnologist (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0094-0496 • E-ISSN: 1548-1425
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1525/ae.1997.24.4.813
OpenAlexW2150876944
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas9
Referencias citadas47

In this paper I analyze images of the "normal body" in Israel between 1983 and 1993. By correlating body imagery with images of the social order, I argue that this "normal body" reflects a social discourse of growing individualism. During the Gulf War (1991), images of the "normal body" changed to reflect a rising collectivism. I consider this abrupt change in the context of Israel's "interrupted system." I conclude by offering a panoramic reading of how people narrate their socially informed bodies to suit varying cultural contexts and thus problematize the "individuality" presumed inherent in "normal bodies

Aesthetics · Collectivism · Context (archaeology · Dialectic · Epistemology · Individualism · Order (exchange · Political science · Reading (process · Sociology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Philosophy · Public Spaces through Art