Marcy Brink‐danan
Biographic Data
| ID | 78606 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marcy Brink‐danan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marcy |
| FAMILY NAME | Brink‐danan |
| SIGNATURE | DANAN M B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Value and meaning: Paradoxes of religious diversity talk as globalized expertise
Faith in Conversation: Translation, Translanguaging, and the British God Debate
Taking ideas about interfaith communication among stakeholders in the British "God Debate" as an illustrative case, I propose that the translation metaphor, widely adopted across disciplines, might productively be replaced by a different metaphor, "translanguaging" (García and Wei 2013). I suggest that the model of sociolinguistic relations offered by translanguaging nicely addresses the genealogical inseparability of "religious" language and "se…
Three Jewish Journeys through an Anthropologist's Lens: From Morocco to the Negev, Zion to the Big Apple, the closet to the Bimah
Love, Luck and Long Distances. Choice and Chance in Turkish Women's Emigration Stories
Amour, hasard et longues distances. Choix et chance dans les récits d’émigration des femmes turques Cet article analyse les pérégrinations de femmes juives nouvellement émigrées de Turquie. En raison du développement de l’antisémitisme et du déclin démographique parmi les juifs, de nombreuses femmes turques juives voyagent au loin à la recherche de l’amour. S’appuyant sur du travail de terrain conduit à Istanbul, des rencontres avec des amies apr…
Mediajourneys: Looking at People, Looking for People
R uth B ehar's oeuvre consistently deals with the issue of looking as an anthropological concern. This interview explores the way anthropology in general, and B ehar in particular, looks at and for people. The conversation explores topics of primary interest to this journal's readers, including the advantages and disadvantages of different representational strategies, the relationships of various media to anthropological subjects and to each othe…
Jewish Life in Twenty-First-Century Turkey: The Other Side of Tolerance
Turkey is famed for a history of tolerance toward minorities, and there is a growing nostalgia for the “Ottoman mosaic.” In this richly detailed study, Marcy Brink-Danan examines what it means for Jews to live as a tolerated minority in contemporary Istanbul. Often portrayed as the “good minority,” Jews in Turkey celebrate their long history in the region, yet they are subject to discrimination and their institutions are regularly threatened and …
The meaning of Ladino: The semiotics of an online speech community
Dangerous Cosmopolitanism: Erasing Difference in Istanbul
If, as is widely argued, we live in a cosmopolitan moment, the processes of cosmopolitanization are sometimes fraught with danger. Describing contexts in which cosmopolitanism is censored, this article considers recursive erasures of difference in Turkish-Jewish architecture, bodily marking, and language that highlight this sense of dangerous cosmopolitanism. This scenario complicates the popular notion that cosmopolitanism requires public nomina…
Names That Show Time: Turkish Jews as “Strangers” and the Semiotics of Reclassification
In this article, I discuss the anthropological value of focusing on ontological processes in which seemingly local, native, or indigenous people are reclassified as foreigners. Building on theories of language and time, I show, through the ethnographic example of Jewish naming in Istanbul, how names come to signify foreignness. I also explore naming as a process through which the subjects of reclassification themselves understand present‐day onto…
I vote, therefore I am: Rituals of Democracy and the Turkish Chief Rabbi
This article describes how the election and investiture of a chief rabbi in 2002 created a unique space for Turkish Jews to debate the meaning of democracy. I document current Turkish Jewish discourses about democracy by combining ethnographic observations of the election season with an analysis of the production and reception of local narratives (speeches, news articles, and interviews) about the process. I then analyze the election and inaugura…
Anthropological Perspectives on Judaism: A Comparative Review
How has the discipline of anthropology studied Judaism? This review provides a brief overview of the variety of approaches the discipline has taken to the subject of Jewish religion, society and culture. By situating these approaches in their historical, political and geographic locations, I offer a comparative look at the development of a sub‐discipline of the anthropology of religion. In addition to providing a comparative review of the sub‐dis…
Notes from the Balkans: Locating Marginality and Ambiguity on the Greek-Albanian Border by Sarah F. Green
Names That Show Time: Turkish Jews as “Strangers” and the Semiotics of Reclassification
In this article, I discuss the anthropological value of focusing on ontological processes in which seemingly local, native, or indigenous people are reclassified as foreigners. Building on theories of language and time, I show, through the ethnographic example of Jewish naming in Istanbul, how names come to signify foreignness. I also explore naming as a process through which the subjects of reclassification themselves understand present‐day onto…
Faith in Conversation: Translation, Translanguaging, and the British God Debate
Taking ideas about interfaith communication among stakeholders in the British "God Debate" as an illustrative case, I propose that the translation metaphor, widely adopted across disciplines, might productively be replaced by a different metaphor, "translanguaging" (García and Wei 2013). I suggest that the model of sociolinguistic relations offered by translanguaging nicely addresses the genealogical inseparability of "religious" language and "se…
Value and meaning: Paradoxes of religious diversity talk as globalized expertise
I vote, therefore I am: Rituals of Democracy and the Turkish Chief Rabbi
This article describes how the election and investiture of a chief rabbi in 2002 created a unique space for Turkish Jews to debate the meaning of democracy. I document current Turkish Jewish discourses about democracy by combining ethnographic observations of the election season with an analysis of the production and reception of local narratives (speeches, news articles, and interviews) about the process. I then analyze the election and inaugura…
The meaning of Ladino: The semiotics of an online speech community
Dangerous Cosmopolitanism: Erasing Difference in Istanbul
If, as is widely argued, we live in a cosmopolitan moment, the processes of cosmopolitanization are sometimes fraught with danger. Describing contexts in which cosmopolitanism is censored, this article considers recursive erasures of difference in Turkish-Jewish architecture, bodily marking, and language that highlight this sense of dangerous cosmopolitanism. This scenario complicates the popular notion that cosmopolitanism requires public nomina…
Mediajourneys: Looking at People, Looking for People
R uth B ehar's oeuvre consistently deals with the issue of looking as an anthropological concern. This interview explores the way anthropology in general, and B ehar in particular, looks at and for people. The conversation explores topics of primary interest to this journal's readers, including the advantages and disadvantages of different representational strategies, the relationships of various media to anthropological subjects and to each othe…
Love, Luck and Long Distances. Choice and Chance in Turkish Women's Emigration Stories
Amour, hasard et longues distances. Choix et chance dans les récits d’émigration des femmes turques Cet article analyse les pérégrinations de femmes juives nouvellement émigrées de Turquie. En raison du développement de l’antisémitisme et du déclin démographique parmi les juifs, de nombreuses femmes turques juives voyagent au loin à la recherche de l’amour. S’appuyant sur du travail de terrain conduit à Istanbul, des rencontres avec des amies apr…
Anthropological Perspectives on Judaism: A Comparative Review
How has the discipline of anthropology studied Judaism? This review provides a brief overview of the variety of approaches the discipline has taken to the subject of Jewish religion, society and culture. By situating these approaches in their historical, political and geographic locations, I offer a comparative look at the development of a sub‐discipline of the anthropology of religion. In addition to providing a comparative review of the sub‐dis…
Notes from the Balkans: Locating Marginality and Ambiguity on the Greek-Albanian Border by Sarah F. Green
I vote, therefore I am: Rituals of Democracy and the Turkish Chief Rabbi
This article describes how the election and investiture of a chief rabbi in 2002 created a unique space for Turkish Jews to debate the meaning of democracy. I document current Turkish Jewish discourses about democracy by combining ethnographic observations of the election season with an analysis of the production and reception of local narratives (speeches, news articles, and interviews) about the process. I then analyze the election and inaugura…
Names That Show Time: Turkish Jews as “Strangers” and the Semiotics of Reclassification
In this article, I discuss the anthropological value of focusing on ontological processes in which seemingly local, native, or indigenous people are reclassified as foreigners. Building on theories of language and time, I show, through the ethnographic example of Jewish naming in Istanbul, how names come to signify foreignness. I also explore naming as a process through which the subjects of reclassification themselves understand present‐day onto…
Jewish Life in Twenty-First-Century Turkey: The Other Side of Tolerance
Turkey is famed for a history of tolerance toward minorities, and there is a growing nostalgia for the “Ottoman mosaic.” In this richly detailed study, Marcy Brink-Danan examines what it means for Jews to live as a tolerated minority in contemporary Istanbul. Often portrayed as the “good minority,” Jews in Turkey celebrate their long history in the region, yet they are subject to discrimination and their institutions are regularly threatened and …
The meaning of Ladino: The semiotics of an online speech community
Dangerous Cosmopolitanism: Erasing Difference in Istanbul
If, as is widely argued, we live in a cosmopolitan moment, the processes of cosmopolitanization are sometimes fraught with danger. Describing contexts in which cosmopolitanism is censored, this article considers recursive erasures of difference in Turkish-Jewish architecture, bodily marking, and language that highlight this sense of dangerous cosmopolitanism. This scenario complicates the popular notion that cosmopolitanism requires public nomina…
Mediajourneys: Looking at People, Looking for People
R uth B ehar's oeuvre consistently deals with the issue of looking as an anthropological concern. This interview explores the way anthropology in general, and B ehar in particular, looks at and for people. The conversation explores topics of primary interest to this journal's readers, including the advantages and disadvantages of different representational strategies, the relationships of various media to anthropological subjects and to each othe…
Three Jewish Journeys through an Anthropologist's Lens: From Morocco to the Negev, Zion to the Big Apple, the closet to the Bimah
Love, Luck and Long Distances. Choice and Chance in Turkish Women's Emigration Stories
Amour, hasard et longues distances. Choix et chance dans les récits d’émigration des femmes turques Cet article analyse les pérégrinations de femmes juives nouvellement émigrées de Turquie. En raison du développement de l’antisémitisme et du déclin démographique parmi les juifs, de nombreuses femmes turques juives voyagent au loin à la recherche de l’amour. S’appuyant sur du travail de terrain conduit à Istanbul, des rencontres avec des amies apr…
Value and meaning: Paradoxes of religious diversity talk as globalized expertise
Faith in Conversation: Translation, Translanguaging, and the British God Debate
Taking ideas about interfaith communication among stakeholders in the British "God Debate" as an illustrative case, I propose that the translation metaphor, widely adopted across disciplines, might productively be replaced by a different metaphor, "translanguaging" (García and Wei 2013). I suggest that the model of sociolinguistic relations offered by translanguaging nicely addresses the genealogical inseparability of "religious" language and "se…
Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Turkey's Politics and Society (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Art (3 works) · History (3 works) · Judaism (3 works)