Arnold Lewis
Biographic Data
| ID | 3637693 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Arnold Lewis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Arnold |
| FAMILY NAME | Lewis |
| SIGNATURE | LEWIS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tel Aviv University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Phantom Ethnicity
As various collectivities have harnessed ethnic symbolism to political ends, the ethnic unit, long a primary concern of anthropologists, has blossomed into a phenomena of general interest. In Israel, where the coming together of culturally diverse immigrants at Independence in 1948 was a salient social occurrence, the ethnic factor has been prominent in folk and sociological models of society. According to this perspective, the Jewish population …
An Early Encounter with Tomorrow
This volume is the winner of the Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History given by the Council of the American Philosophical Society. Extravagantly illustrated with over seventy photographs, drawings, paintings, and contemporary cartoons, An Early Encounter with Tomorrow documents the mixture of amazement and alarm with which European visitors greeted 1890s Chicago: as a futuristic animated by a crass, frenetic mercantile class. This volume also …
Power, Poverty and Education
Minority Education in Sharonia, Israel, and Stockton, California
In this paper, ethnographic data from Stockton, California and Sharonia, Israel are brought to bear on the question, In what way do dominant-minority group relations affect the educational careers of poor black American and Oriental Jewish youth? Organizing the data in reference to two key concepts, power relationships and symbolic formations, it is shown that Stockton and Sharonia exhibit congruent structures of social inequality. This impinges …
The Peace Ritual and Israeli Images of Social Order
In this article, a series of events associated with President Sadat's pilgrimage to Jerusalem in November 1977 have been organized in accordance with anthropological theory on the ritual process. This perspective suggests that conflict and conflict resolution are processes of dialectical interaction between power relationships and symbolic actions. President Sadat's visit to Jerusalem stands as a unique symbolic initiative in the Arab-Israeli con…
The Peace Ritual and Israeli Images of Social Order
In this article, a series of events associated with President Sadat's pilgrimage to Jerusalem in November 1977 have been organized in accordance with anthropological theory on the ritual process. This perspective suggests that conflict and conflict resolution are processes of dialectical interaction between power relationships and symbolic actions. President Sadat's visit to Jerusalem stands as a unique symbolic initiative in the Arab-Israeli con…
An Early Encounter with Tomorrow
This volume is the winner of the Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History given by the Council of the American Philosophical Society. Extravagantly illustrated with over seventy photographs, drawings, paintings, and contemporary cartoons, An Early Encounter with Tomorrow documents the mixture of amazement and alarm with which European visitors greeted 1890s Chicago: as a futuristic animated by a crass, frenetic mercantile class. This volume also …
Minority Education in Sharonia, Israel, and Stockton, California
In this paper, ethnographic data from Stockton, California and Sharonia, Israel are brought to bear on the question, In what way do dominant-minority group relations affect the educational careers of poor black American and Oriental Jewish youth? Organizing the data in reference to two key concepts, power relationships and symbolic formations, it is shown that Stockton and Sharonia exhibit congruent structures of social inequality. This impinges …
The Peace Ritual and Israeli Images of Social Order
In this article, a series of events associated with President Sadat's pilgrimage to Jerusalem in November 1977 have been organized in accordance with anthropological theory on the ritual process. This perspective suggests that conflict and conflict resolution are processes of dialectical interaction between power relationships and symbolic actions. President Sadat's visit to Jerusalem stands as a unique symbolic initiative in the Arab-Israeli con…
Minority Education in Sharonia, Israel, and Stockton, California
In this paper, ethnographic data from Stockton, California and Sharonia, Israel are brought to bear on the question, In what way do dominant-minority group relations affect the educational careers of poor black American and Oriental Jewish youth? Organizing the data in reference to two key concepts, power relationships and symbolic formations, it is shown that Stockton and Sharonia exhibit congruent structures of social inequality. This impinges …
Power, Poverty and Education
An Early Encounter with Tomorrow
This volume is the winner of the Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History given by the Council of the American Philosophical Society. Extravagantly illustrated with over seventy photographs, drawings, paintings, and contemporary cartoons, An Early Encounter with Tomorrow documents the mixture of amazement and alarm with which European visitors greeted 1890s Chicago: as a futuristic animated by a crass, frenetic mercantile class. This volume also …
Phantom Ethnicity
As various collectivities have harnessed ethnic symbolism to political ends, the ethnic unit, long a primary concern of anthropologists, has blossomed into a phenomena of general interest. In Israel, where the coming together of culturally diverse immigrants at Independence in 1948 was a salient social occurrence, the ethnic factor has been prominent in folk and sociological models of society. According to this perspective, the Jewish population …
Sociology (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · History (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Ethnography (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (2 works) · Power (physics (2 works) · Theology (2 works)