Yoram S Carmeli
Biographic Data
| ID | 199501 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yoram S Carmeli |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yoram S |
| FAMILY NAME | Carmeli |
| SIGNATURE | CARMELI Y S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Haifa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 97 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
At the circus backstage
The transformations that took place during the last thirty years in the social position and performance of the circus in Britain are observed through their backstage manifestations, with a particular attention to the position and roles of the circus women
Researching sensitive fields
Purpose – Research fields that may imperil one's privacy and dignity present particular methodological challenges to researchers. Gaining a closer look into such fields therefore requires a subtle research design. The present study aims to look at the research of donor insemination (DI) in Israel in order to show the methodological variety required for the study of diverse aspects of this sensitive field of practice
Traveling and family in the 1970s British circus
Based on fieldwork carried out between 1975 and 1979, it was discovered that most of the circus performers were living and performing as families and many had traced their origins to circus families. The traveling conditions and relative isolation account for this family basis, as do the circus' labor-intensive economy (only an entire family's labor can provide for its needs), as well as the reproduction of its labor as the main source of the par…
Spectacle, Death, and a European Traveling One-Ring Circus
Research Article| September 01 2006 Spectacle, Death, and a European Traveling One-Ring Circus: A Response to Kenneth Little Yoram S. Carmeli Yoram S. Carmeli Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Poetics Today (2006) 27 (3): 615–623. https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-2006-004 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Ico…
On human-to-animal communication
Cet article propose de faire une semiosis de la communication homme-animal avec une analyse biosemiotique. Adoptant une approche epistemologique constructionniste, l'A. base son etude sur des observations empiriques au zoo de Londres et au cirque. Le but est de montrer l'interet de faire entrer les concepts d'histoire et de culture comme nouvelles variables dans le paradigme biosemiotique. Une semiosis de la communication homme-animal sera alors …
A Game of Three Cities
This paper examines the relationship between sporting dramas, national and civic identity, and the local domains in which collective identities crystallize. The Israeli premier football league is contextualized historically in terms of the Israeli-Arab conflict. By focusing on football matches between an “Arab” team and its various Jewish rivals (i.e., matches played by this Arab team in different Jewish towns) we develop a framework for a compar…
Lion on Display
This article deals with exclusion and the construction of periphery as modes of ritualizing and binding together a dominant social order. Under scrutiny is the peripheral British traveling circus and the way its traveling and performance define the margins of the modern fragmented order,particularly vis-à-vis the crisis of the premodern Culture/Nature paradigm. A lion act presents the Culture/Nature opposition, that is, human trainer, props, rout…
On the culture dimension in a biosemiotic inquiry
Cruelty to animals” and nostalgic totality
Investigates travelling circuses in depth with particular emphasis on the UK and the efforts of the anti‐circus movements and their allies, the RSPCA in particular. Looks in depth at the training and conditions of the animals in circuses with emphasis on the owners of animals involved. Concludes that as a result of the “antis” efforts circuses in the UK gave up most animal acts leaving the circus to develop in other areas such as plays and displa…
Physiognomy, familism and consumerism
Hegemony and Homogeneity
This article explores the relevance of hegemony theory to choices of sperm donors made by Jewish Israeli recipients of donor insemination (DI). The context is the objectification of 'the Natural' through hegemonic images of mass consumption. The study, which was conducted in a major Israeli hospital, examined physiological features (height, eye colour, skin colour) of the most popular donors. In the highly familistic society of Israel, recipients…
Donor Insemination in Israel
The paper describes the sociodemography of donor insemination recipients in Israel. Arab recipients are very few. Among the Jews, married recipients are generally younger than their single counterparts, and they are somewhat less educated and more religious. Ethnically, the percentage of Orientals among the married recipients is relatively higher; among the single women, Orientals are under-represented. On the whole, however, donor insemination s…
Metaphorics and nationalistic sparks
En s'appuyant sur des articles journalistiques nationaux consacres a la victoire de l'equipe de football israelienne Beitar lors de la saison 1996-1997, l'A. analyse la montee de la culture politique populiste et nationale en Israel, son emergence a travers differentes couches discursives ainsi que son emprise sur une large population. L'A. explore le role du langage dans le journalisme sportif comme vehicule du sens d'un point de vue semiotique.…
Circus Play, Circus Talk, and the Nostalgia for a Total Order
It's a game between Jews and Arabs’
(2000). ‘It's a game between Jews and Arabs’: Soccer journalism, otherness and abjection in the Israeli context. Culture, Sport, Society: Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 23-43
Ritualizing the 'Natural Family
Secrecy Among Israeli Recipients of Donor Insemination
Patterns of discretion and disclosure of fertility-related information among Israeli recipients of donor insemination (DI) are explored. Based on questionnaires completed by recipients in four sperm banks, we studied differences between married women and men. We found that most Israeli recipients conceal the treatment from their friends and relatives. Women and men, however, differ in their disclosure patterns: women are somewhat more open about …
Our first “IVF baby”
Provides a comparison of the press coverage of the introduction of IVF in different contexts, giving a vantage point for examining the variability and the context‐dependence of the issue. Sheds some light on the cultural‐political‐social problems that the new technology entails. Contrasts the differences between Canada and Israel, showing that both countries endorse modern technology in the field of medidine: in both countries, IVF was imported a…
The sight of cruelty
The paper takes accusations of cruelty to circus animals as a vantage point for the analysis of the circus. It relates the experience of cruelty invoked by animal acts to the spectators' perception of the animals' tamed bodies rather than to any actual offense to animals. It argues that circus animal training is a part of circus textualization of nature, which culminates in de‐realization of animal (and human) bodies. Through the self‐derealizati…
Patients Who Get What They Want
This article examines a request for amniocentesis, a prenatal screening test, for a middle-class, professional couple in a a major city in Ontario, Canada. The unfolding of this case over time permits analysis of some practices employed in the Canadian and in the U.S. health care systems, especially insofar as these practices can be influenced by participants' technical knowledge, social networks, and willingness to persevere in the face of burea…
On the margins
Marginal Body and Bourgeois Cosmology1
While watching the performance of travelling circuses in Britain in the late 1970s, an outsider would have been struck by the similarity between circus acrobatics and performances within gymnastics' halls. The circus trapeze performance bears great resemblance to gymnasts' rings and trapeze exercises. Likewise, the circus trampoline act is similar to the gymnast's trampoline routines; wire walking in the circus (especially low wire walking) is si…
The Invention of Circus and Bourgeois Hegemony
Writers in Prison
The predicament of masculinity
The predicament of masculinity
Ritualizing the 'Natural Family
Physiognomy, familism and consumerism
Secrecy Among Israeli Recipients of Donor Insemination
Patterns of discretion and disclosure of fertility-related information among Israeli recipients of donor insemination (DI) are explored. Based on questionnaires completed by recipients in four sperm banks, we studied differences between married women and men. We found that most Israeli recipients conceal the treatment from their friends and relatives. Women and men, however, differ in their disclosure patterns: women are somewhat more open about …
Hegemony and Homogeneity
This article explores the relevance of hegemony theory to choices of sperm donors made by Jewish Israeli recipients of donor insemination (DI). The context is the objectification of 'the Natural' through hegemonic images of mass consumption. The study, which was conducted in a major Israeli hospital, examined physiological features (height, eye colour, skin colour) of the most popular donors. In the highly familistic society of Israel, recipients…
Circus Play, Circus Talk, and the Nostalgia for a Total Order
Marginal Body and Bourgeois Cosmology1
While watching the performance of travelling circuses in Britain in the late 1970s, an outsider would have been struck by the similarity between circus acrobatics and performances within gymnastics' halls. The circus trapeze performance bears great resemblance to gymnasts' rings and trapeze exercises. Likewise, the circus trampoline act is similar to the gymnast's trampoline routines; wire walking in the circus (especially low wire walking) is si…
Our first “IVF baby”
Provides a comparison of the press coverage of the introduction of IVF in different contexts, giving a vantage point for examining the variability and the context‐dependence of the issue. Sheds some light on the cultural‐political‐social problems that the new technology entails. Contrasts the differences between Canada and Israel, showing that both countries endorse modern technology in the field of medidine: in both countries, IVF was imported a…
Why Does the "Jimmy Brown's Circus" Travel
The Invention of Circus and Bourgeois Hegemony
Text, Traces, and the Reification of Totality
Yoram S. Carmeli, Text, Traces, and the Reification of Totality: The Case of Popular Circus Literature, New Literary History, Vol. 25, No. 1, Literary History and Other Histories (Winter, 1994), pp. 175-205
Lion on Display
This article deals with exclusion and the construction of periphery as modes of ritualizing and binding together a dominant social order. Under scrutiny is the peripheral British traveling circus and the way its traveling and performance define the margins of the modern fragmented order,particularly vis-à-vis the crisis of the premodern Culture/Nature paradigm. A lion act presents the Culture/Nature opposition, that is, human trainer, props, rout…
Cruelty to animals” and nostalgic totality
Investigates travelling circuses in depth with particular emphasis on the UK and the efforts of the anti‐circus movements and their allies, the RSPCA in particular. Looks in depth at the training and conditions of the animals in circuses with emphasis on the owners of animals involved. Concludes that as a result of the “antis” efforts circuses in the UK gave up most animal acts leaving the circus to develop in other areas such as plays and displa…
The sight of cruelty
The paper takes accusations of cruelty to circus animals as a vantage point for the analysis of the circus. It relates the experience of cruelty invoked by animal acts to the spectators' perception of the animals' tamed bodies rather than to any actual offense to animals. It argues that circus animal training is a part of circus textualization of nature, which culminates in de‐realization of animal (and human) bodies. Through the self‐derealizati…
From Curiosity to Prop—A Note on the Changing Cultural Significances of Dwarves' Presentations in Britain
Performance and family in the world of British circus
Performing the 'real' and 'impossible' in the British traveling circus
Played by Their Own Play
This paper is based on fieldwork conducted in a British circus between 1975 and 1979.' It focuses on the dynamics of the frequent disappearance and reappearance characteristic of travelling circus shows in Britain. It shows that these dynamics are to be understood in terms of circus economics, social and semiotic constraints. It argues that, understood in these terms, the appearance and disappearance of circuses should not be taken as unequivocal…
A Game of Three Cities
This paper examines the relationship between sporting dramas, national and civic identity, and the local domains in which collective identities crystallize. The Israeli premier football league is contextualized historically in terms of the Israeli-Arab conflict. By focusing on football matches between an “Arab” team and its various Jewish rivals (i.e., matches played by this Arab team in different Jewish towns) we develop a framework for a compar…
Travelling circus
Of the variety of travellers in Britain, circus people belong in a special category. Unlike travelling businessmen, visitors or most tourists, they travel permanently, but in contrast to homeless vagrants, they have a home in their caravans. Together with fairground travellers and various categories of Gypsies, circus people comprise the 'nomads' of modern Britain (for classification of travellers see Cohen 1974: 534
Why Does the "Jimmy Brown's Circus" Travel
Played by Their Own Play
This paper is based on fieldwork conducted in a British circus between 1975 and 1979.' It focuses on the dynamics of the frequent disappearance and reappearance characteristic of travelling circus shows in Britain. It shows that these dynamics are to be understood in terms of circus economics, social and semiotic constraints. It argues that, understood in these terms, the appearance and disappearance of circuses should not be taken as unequivocal…
Travelling circus
Of the variety of travellers in Britain, circus people belong in a special category. Unlike travelling businessmen, visitors or most tourists, they travel permanently, but in contrast to homeless vagrants, they have a home in their caravans. Together with fairground travellers and various categories of Gypsies, circus people comprise the 'nomads' of modern Britain (for classification of travellers see Cohen 1974: 534
Wee Pea
The discourse on what is considered unusual and extraordinary has long been recognized by anthropologists as an important clue for understanding society's main cultural assumptions and classifications (see Douglas 1966; Turner 1969). In this context, attitudes toward human freaks those abnormal in form, such as a three-legged person, or in size, such as giants and midgets-and the beliefs concerning their coming into existence, make an interesting…
Performing the 'real' and 'impossible' in the British traveling circus
Performance and family in the world of British circus
Freak Show
The Monkey as Mirror
From Curiosity to Prop—A Note on the Changing Cultural Significances of Dwarves' Presentations in Britain
Helpless and Omnipotent
During the last decades the socio‐political status of children in Western societies has become a focus of interest for researchers from various disciplines. As part of the more general trend of struggles for the human rights of specific sectors of society (e.g. African Americans, women, homosexuals) proponents established the “Children's Rights Movement” which has fought on behalf of the younger members of society, trying to secure them certain s…
Models and Mirrors
In this comparative study of public events, Professor Handelman investigates rituals as epistemological phenomena in their own right. He argues that any public event - including both ritual and related occasions - must first be comprehended through the logic of its design
The predicament of masculinity
Text, Traces, and the Reification of Totality
Yoram S. Carmeli, Text, Traces, and the Reification of Totality: The Case of Popular Circus Literature, New Literary History, Vol. 25, No. 1, Literary History and Other Histories (Winter, 1994), pp. 175-205
The Invention of Circus and Bourgeois Hegemony
Writers in Prison
Patients Who Get What They Want
This article examines a request for amniocentesis, a prenatal screening test, for a middle-class, professional couple in a a major city in Ontario, Canada. The unfolding of this case over time permits analysis of some practices employed in the Canadian and in the U.S. health care systems, especially insofar as these practices can be influenced by participants' technical knowledge, social networks, and willingness to persevere in the face of burea…
On the margins
Marginal Body and Bourgeois Cosmology1
While watching the performance of travelling circuses in Britain in the late 1970s, an outsider would have been struck by the similarity between circus acrobatics and performances within gymnastics' halls. The circus trapeze performance bears great resemblance to gymnasts' rings and trapeze exercises. Likewise, the circus trampoline act is similar to the gymnast's trampoline routines; wire walking in the circus (especially low wire walking) is si…
The sight of cruelty
The paper takes accusations of cruelty to circus animals as a vantage point for the analysis of the circus. It relates the experience of cruelty invoked by animal acts to the spectators' perception of the animals' tamed bodies rather than to any actual offense to animals. It argues that circus animal training is a part of circus textualization of nature, which culminates in de‐realization of animal (and human) bodies. Through the self‐derealizati…
It's a game between Jews and Arabs’
(2000). ‘It's a game between Jews and Arabs’: Soccer journalism, otherness and abjection in the Israeli context. Culture, Sport, Society: Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 23-43
Ritualizing the 'Natural Family
Secrecy Among Israeli Recipients of Donor Insemination
Patterns of discretion and disclosure of fertility-related information among Israeli recipients of donor insemination (DI) are explored. Based on questionnaires completed by recipients in four sperm banks, we studied differences between married women and men. We found that most Israeli recipients conceal the treatment from their friends and relatives. Women and men, however, differ in their disclosure patterns: women are somewhat more open about …
Our first “IVF baby”
Provides a comparison of the press coverage of the introduction of IVF in different contexts, giving a vantage point for examining the variability and the context‐dependence of the issue. Sheds some light on the cultural‐political‐social problems that the new technology entails. Contrasts the differences between Canada and Israel, showing that both countries endorse modern technology in the field of medidine: in both countries, IVF was imported a…
Donor Insemination in Israel
The paper describes the sociodemography of donor insemination recipients in Israel. Arab recipients are very few. Among the Jews, married recipients are generally younger than their single counterparts, and they are somewhat less educated and more religious. Ethnically, the percentage of Orientals among the married recipients is relatively higher; among the single women, Orientals are under-represented. On the whole, however, donor insemination s…
Metaphorics and nationalistic sparks
En s'appuyant sur des articles journalistiques nationaux consacres a la victoire de l'equipe de football israelienne Beitar lors de la saison 1996-1997, l'A. analyse la montee de la culture politique populiste et nationale en Israel, son emergence a travers differentes couches discursives ainsi que son emprise sur une large population. L'A. explore le role du langage dans le journalisme sportif comme vehicule du sens d'un point de vue semiotique.…
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