Mina Meir‐dviri
Biographic Data
| ID | 207765 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mina Meir‐dviri |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mina |
| FAMILY NAME | Meir‐dviri |
| SIGNATURE | DVIRI M M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Jerusalem University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Mythic symbolic type, utopia, and body without organs
A mythic symbolic type is a binary-structured, gender-oriented cultural mask. Whoever enters it will never exit and will behave according to the mask’s logic. The article focuses on the men of the semi-commune Little Home trapped in the mask. It will examine this cultural structure’s organization of binary-opposition in a unique kind of intensity, I called “masculine waves.” In the final part, a discussion will be presented in the context of Dele…
Men and the Menstruation Dynamic
Anthropos , Seite 258 - 268
Symbolic Types
The semi-commune "Little Home" is a cultural enclave whose beliefs and idiosyncratic, seemingly chaotic interactions are based on gender relations translated into the terms of the purity and impurity of the female body. This framework is the scene of fictional and real kinship relations that play distinct roles within this mini-society and are dominated by symbolic types, which determine their social context. This article examines a ritual of pur…
Life Stories, Status, and Symbolic Typing
Based on fieldwork in a central bus station in Israel, this article focuses on the theme of life stories as an analytical venue into the social world of beggars. Beggars were found to have three statuses, or symbolic types: the handicapped, the prostitute, and the mad. The ethnography describes the interplay between the status and life stories of beggars, and analyzes how life stories are changed vis-a-vis a beggar's change of status. (Sociology,…
Rituals of Exchange in the Social World of Israeli Beggars
Based on a fieldwork in a central bus station in Israel, this study offers a novel consideration of the symbolic interactions underlying processes of communication, social exchange, and status attainment among beggars. The case study presents a possible alternative to sociological analyses of beggary as 'deviant activity' by drawing upon the constructs of social-world perspective and symbolic types
Rituals of Exchange in the Social World of Israeli Beggars
Based on a fieldwork in a central bus station in Israel, this study offers a novel consideration of the symbolic interactions underlying processes of communication, social exchange, and status attainment among beggars. The case study presents a possible alternative to sociological analyses of beggary as 'deviant activity' by drawing upon the constructs of social-world perspective and symbolic types
Symbolic Types
The semi-commune "Little Home" is a cultural enclave whose beliefs and idiosyncratic, seemingly chaotic interactions are based on gender relations translated into the terms of the purity and impurity of the female body. This framework is the scene of fictional and real kinship relations that play distinct roles within this mini-society and are dominated by symbolic types, which determine their social context. This article examines a ritual of pur…
Men and the Menstruation Dynamic
Anthropos , Seite 258 - 268
Rituals of Exchange in the Social World of Israeli Beggars
Based on a fieldwork in a central bus station in Israel, this study offers a novel consideration of the symbolic interactions underlying processes of communication, social exchange, and status attainment among beggars. The case study presents a possible alternative to sociological analyses of beggary as 'deviant activity' by drawing upon the constructs of social-world perspective and symbolic types
Life Stories, Status, and Symbolic Typing
Based on fieldwork in a central bus station in Israel, this article focuses on the theme of life stories as an analytical venue into the social world of beggars. Beggars were found to have three statuses, or symbolic types: the handicapped, the prostitute, and the mad. The ethnography describes the interplay between the status and life stories of beggars, and analyzes how life stories are changed vis-a-vis a beggar's change of status. (Sociology,…
Symbolic Types
The semi-commune "Little Home" is a cultural enclave whose beliefs and idiosyncratic, seemingly chaotic interactions are based on gender relations translated into the terms of the purity and impurity of the female body. This framework is the scene of fictional and real kinship relations that play distinct roles within this mini-society and are dominated by symbolic types, which determine their social context. This article examines a ritual of pur…
Men and the Menstruation Dynamic
Anthropos , Seite 258 - 268
Mythic symbolic type, utopia, and body without organs
A mythic symbolic type is a binary-structured, gender-oriented cultural mask. Whoever enters it will never exit and will behave according to the mask’s logic. The article focuses on the men of the semi-commune Little Home trapped in the mask. It will examine this cultural structure’s organization of binary-opposition in a unique kind of intensity, I called “masculine waves.” In the final part, a discussion will be presented in the context of Dele…
Sociology (5 works) · Psychoanalysis (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · The Symbolic (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · History (2 works)