H Hazan
Biographic Data
| ID | 13898 |
|---|---|
| NAME | H Hazan |
| GIVEN NAMES | H |
| FAMILY NAME | Hazan |
| SIGNATURE | HAZAN H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tel Aviv University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9415-9925 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 99 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Age into Race: The Coronization of the Old
The Location of Suicide: Cultural Parameters of a Public Health Territory
The impetus driving this article is the uncritical uses of ‘culture’ as an explanatory variable in public health research of ‘suicide’, regarding its conceptualization and operationalization as a mentally riddled phenomenon clamped in nomothetic and epidemiological nomenclature. This reduction of suicide to its presumed ‘evidence based’ figures and graphs under the guise of the lingo of culture requires and yields not only ‘thin’ understandings b…
Civil melancholia: Yemenite Jews’ responses to the kidnapping of their children
During Yemenite Jews’ stay in Israeli transit camps during 1948–1950, many of their children disappeared in the so‐called “Yemenite Children Affair,” undermining the immigrants’ faith in the redemptive ethos of Zionism. To better understand this collective trauma, we return to the original Freudian conceptualization of melancholia as “failed mourning,” locating it within the ethnographic context of the Yemenite Children Affair and integrating its…
Serendipity in Anthropological Research
Correlates and predictors of loneliness in older-adults: A review of quantitative results informed by qualitative insights
BACKGROUND: Older persons are particularly vulnerable to loneliness because of common age-related changes and losses. This paper reviews predictors of loneliness in the older population as described in the current literature and a small qualitative study. METHODS: Peer-reviewed journal articles were identified from psycINFO, MEDLINE, and Google Scholar from 2000-2012. Overall, 38 articles were reviewed. Two focus groups were conducted asking olde…
Lifecourse and Aging
This essay addresses the need of peoples everywhere to think about the human life span as a series of discretely identifiable stages here characterized and analyzed as a series of fundamental dimensions around which dominant cultural beliefs are commonly organized. They include: Universality versus diversity; determinacy versus indeterminacy; social time versus experienced time; and course versus cycle. Each dimension is described and exemplified…
The terror of the single old maid: On the insolubility of a cultural category
Digital natives’: Honour and respect in computerized encounters between Israeli Jewish and Arab children and adult learners
In Israel's Multigenerational Connection Program ( MCP ), children instruct adults in computer and Internet use. Taking children's advantage in digital literacy as a given, the study examines their generational status in computerized encounters that MCP creates in two schools, one Jewish and one Arab. The data were gathered by means of qualitative participant observation. The results suggest that the family–community‐based habitus is reflected in…
Old Age: Constructions and Deconstructions
Parental bereavement increases mortality in older persons
Studies of the link between parental grief and subsequent morbidity and mortality risks have yielded inconclusive results. We aim to investigate whether the death of a child is related to increased mortality in older parents. Data were drawn from a national survey of a random sample of older Jewish persons in Israel, conducted during 1989-1992. Analyses included 1239 self-respondent community-dwelling and institutionalized participants ages 75-94…
Gerontological autism: Terms of accountability in the cultural study of the category of the Fourth Age
This paper poses an epistemological challenge to students and researchers of old age. It argues that people in deep old age are a testimony to the failure to generate a language by which to comprehend extra-cultural phenomena, which aborts a meaningful dialogue between researchers and subjects. The arguments put forward are based on an analysis of the unique position of the very old as an ultimate, unconstructable ‘other’, as they appear in the r…
Response to Roger Goodman: Silver-Haired Society
Essential others: Anthropology and the Return of the Old Savage
Purpose Old age, in its most intense and extreme aspects involving frailty, dementia, Alzheimer's and death, is more often ignored rather than discussed in contemporary anthropology, remaining largely inaudible and invisible. This paper explores the marginal position of the study of old age in contemporary anthropology against the backdrop of the prominence of the post‐colonial agenda. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the comparison betwee…
The meaning of stigma: Identity Construction in Two Old-Age Institutions
People in advanced old age with frailties and those who are resident in old-age institutions manage their identities within the constraints of stigmatised settings. This paper compares the processes of identity construction in an old-age home and in a sheltered housing project for older people in Israel. Applying a symbolic-interactionist perspective that sees old-age institutions as social arenas for the reconstruction of identity, the paper fir…
The home over the hill
Simulated Dreams: Israeli Youth and Virtual Zionism (New Directions in Anthropology, V. 14)
At the core of the author's concern stands the question of cultural transmutation in an era riddled with media channels and all-embracing messages. Fragments of the Israeli experience are pieced together in this provocative essay to provide a socio-anthropological agenda for some of the issues involved in the manufacturing of items of symbolic solidarity and common national imagery in an epoch of social disunification and cultural pastiche. The a…
Terms of Visibility: Eldercare in an Aging Nation State—The Israeli Case
Viewed within a sociohistorical context, eldercare in Israel is examined as a cultural construct evolving from invisibility of the old to growing visibility. Visibility is a function of the presence of eldercare in the public discourse that changes in correspondence with societal transformations such as globalization, fundamentalistic orientations, and post-Zionist trends. Three ethnographic case studies are analyzed to demonstrate the effects of…
The authorized self: How middle age defines old age in the postmodern
Old Age: Constructions and Deconstructions
The Ethnographer's Textual Presence: On Three Forms of Anthropological Authorship
Managing Change in Old Age: The Control of Meaning in an Institutional Setting
Victim into sacrifice: The construction of the old as a symbolic type
Course” versus“cycle”: On the understanding of understanding aging
On the Anthropology of Time: Reply to Comments
On Symbolic Dimensions in Cultural Anthropology
Old Age: Constructions and Deconstructions
Continuity and Transformation Among the Aged: A Study in the Anthropology of Time [and Comments]
Properties of social time developed among members of a London day-care centre for the aged at two points of chronological time are compared. In the first study, members' temporal universe was found to be anchored in a change arresting conception of reality constructed and sustained by an isolated, egalitarian, present-bound social structure. The restudy, conducted seven years later, revealed that although the centre was no longer an isolated, ega…
Essential others: Anthropology and the Return of the Old Savage
Purpose Old age, in its most intense and extreme aspects involving frailty, dementia, Alzheimer's and death, is more often ignored rather than discussed in contemporary anthropology, remaining largely inaudible and invisible. This paper explores the marginal position of the study of old age in contemporary anthropology against the backdrop of the prominence of the post‐colonial agenda. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the comparison betwee…
The terror of the single old maid: On the insolubility of a cultural category
The meaning of stigma: Identity Construction in Two Old-Age Institutions
People in advanced old age with frailties and those who are resident in old-age institutions manage their identities within the constraints of stigmatised settings. This paper compares the processes of identity construction in an old-age home and in a sheltered housing project for older people in Israel. Applying a symbolic-interactionist perspective that sees old-age institutions as social arenas for the reconstruction of identity, the paper fir…
The home over the hill
Victim into sacrifice: The construction of the old as a symbolic type
Managing Change in Old Age: The Control of Meaning in an Institutional Setting
Gerontological autism: Terms of accountability in the cultural study of the category of the Fourth Age
This paper poses an epistemological challenge to students and researchers of old age. It argues that people in deep old age are a testimony to the failure to generate a language by which to comprehend extra-cultural phenomena, which aborts a meaningful dialogue between researchers and subjects. The arguments put forward are based on an analysis of the unique position of the very old as an ultimate, unconstructable ‘other’, as they appear in the r…
Response to Roger Goodman: Silver-Haired Society
Terms of Visibility: Eldercare in an Aging Nation State—The Israeli Case
Viewed within a sociohistorical context, eldercare in Israel is examined as a cultural construct evolving from invisibility of the old to growing visibility. Visibility is a function of the presence of eldercare in the public discourse that changes in correspondence with societal transformations such as globalization, fundamentalistic orientations, and post-Zionist trends. Three ethnographic case studies are analyzed to demonstrate the effects of…
The Ethnographer's Textual Presence: On Three Forms of Anthropological Authorship
On Symbolic Dimensions in Cultural Anthropology
The authorized self: How middle age defines old age in the postmodern
Continuity and Change in a Tea-Cup: On the Symbolic Nature of Tea-Related Behaviour among the Aged
Beyond Disengagement: A Case Study of Segregation of the Aged
On Middle-aged Women
Continuity and Transformation Among the Aged: A Study in the Anthropology of Time [and Comments]
Properties of social time developed among members of a London day-care centre for the aged at two points of chronological time are compared. In the first study, members' temporal universe was found to be anchored in a change arresting conception of reality constructed and sustained by an isolated, egalitarian, present-bound social structure. The restudy, conducted seven years later, revealed that although the centre was no longer an isolated, ega…
On the Anthropology of Time: Reply to Comments
On Symbolic Dimensions in Cultural Anthropology
Course” versus“cycle”: On the understanding of understanding aging
Victim into sacrifice: The construction of the old as a symbolic type
Managing Change in Old Age: The Control of Meaning in an Institutional Setting
The Ethnographer's Textual Presence: On Three Forms of Anthropological Authorship
Old Age: Constructions and Deconstructions
The authorized self: How middle age defines old age in the postmodern
Terms of Visibility: Eldercare in an Aging Nation State—The Israeli Case
Viewed within a sociohistorical context, eldercare in Israel is examined as a cultural construct evolving from invisibility of the old to growing visibility. Visibility is a function of the presence of eldercare in the public discourse that changes in correspondence with societal transformations such as globalization, fundamentalistic orientations, and post-Zionist trends. Three ethnographic case studies are analyzed to demonstrate the effects of…
Simulated Dreams: Israeli Youth and Virtual Zionism (New Directions in Anthropology, V. 14)
At the core of the author's concern stands the question of cultural transmutation in an era riddled with media channels and all-embracing messages. Fragments of the Israeli experience are pieced together in this provocative essay to provide a socio-anthropological agenda for some of the issues involved in the manufacturing of items of symbolic solidarity and common national imagery in an epoch of social disunification and cultural pastiche. The a…
The home over the hill
The meaning of stigma: Identity Construction in Two Old-Age Institutions
People in advanced old age with frailties and those who are resident in old-age institutions manage their identities within the constraints of stigmatised settings. This paper compares the processes of identity construction in an old-age home and in a sheltered housing project for older people in Israel. Applying a symbolic-interactionist perspective that sees old-age institutions as social arenas for the reconstruction of identity, the paper fir…
Essential others: Anthropology and the Return of the Old Savage
Purpose Old age, in its most intense and extreme aspects involving frailty, dementia, Alzheimer's and death, is more often ignored rather than discussed in contemporary anthropology, remaining largely inaudible and invisible. This paper explores the marginal position of the study of old age in contemporary anthropology against the backdrop of the prominence of the post‐colonial agenda. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the comparison betwee…
Response to Roger Goodman: Silver-Haired Society
Gerontological autism: Terms of accountability in the cultural study of the category of the Fourth Age
This paper poses an epistemological challenge to students and researchers of old age. It argues that people in deep old age are a testimony to the failure to generate a language by which to comprehend extra-cultural phenomena, which aborts a meaningful dialogue between researchers and subjects. The arguments put forward are based on an analysis of the unique position of the very old as an ultimate, unconstructable ‘other’, as they appear in the r…
Old Age: Constructions and Deconstructions
Parental bereavement increases mortality in older persons
Studies of the link between parental grief and subsequent morbidity and mortality risks have yielded inconclusive results. We aim to investigate whether the death of a child is related to increased mortality in older parents. Data were drawn from a national survey of a random sample of older Jewish persons in Israel, conducted during 1989-1992. Analyses included 1239 self-respondent community-dwelling and institutionalized participants ages 75-94…
The terror of the single old maid: On the insolubility of a cultural category
Digital natives’: Honour and respect in computerized encounters between Israeli Jewish and Arab children and adult learners
In Israel's Multigenerational Connection Program ( MCP ), children instruct adults in computer and Internet use. Taking children's advantage in digital literacy as a given, the study examines their generational status in computerized encounters that MCP creates in two schools, one Jewish and one Arab. The data were gathered by means of qualitative participant observation. The results suggest that the family–community‐based habitus is reflected in…
Lifecourse and Aging
This essay addresses the need of peoples everywhere to think about the human life span as a series of discretely identifiable stages here characterized and analyzed as a series of fundamental dimensions around which dominant cultural beliefs are commonly organized. They include: Universality versus diversity; determinacy versus indeterminacy; social time versus experienced time; and course versus cycle. Each dimension is described and exemplified…
Serendipity in Anthropological Research
Sociology (23 works) · Psychology (17 works) · Anthropology (12 works) · Epistemology (12 works) · Philosophy (12 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · History (9 works) · Aging and Gerontology Research (8 works) · Political science (8 works)