Naor Ben-Yehoyada
Biographic Data
| ID | 80753 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Naor Ben-Yehoyada |
| GIVEN NAMES | Naor |
| FAMILY NAME | Ben-Yehoyada |
| SIGNATURE | BEN-YEHOYADA N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4224-501X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Afterword: Sicily Within and Without the Mediterranean
As If You Were Brothers: The Criminalization of Ritual Kinship
The criminalization of ritual fraternity traverses current writing on crime and criminalization because it foregrounds not marginalization but a political form of fraternity—that the criminalizing state shares with the targeted social formations (some of which are powerful). In 1982, Italy criminalized two kinds of association: Mafia-type organizations and secretive associations. Subsequent investigations and trials foregrounded the role of ritua…
Criminalization on trial
Forum: Piracy, Protection, and the Anthropology of Law at Sea
Follow the relationship: A note on Jatin Dua’s Captured at Sea: Piracy and Protection in the Western Indian Ocean Protection recaptured: Reflections on Jatin Dua’s Captured at Sea: Piracy and Protection in the Western Indian Ocean Protection’s possibility: On histories and geographies of concepts
Introduction: Remapping Mediterranean anthropology
We introduce this special issue, which re-examines the fluctuating fortunes of the Mediterranean in anthropology and ask what it offers for contemporary anthropological explorations. We locate the Mediterranean within the history of anthropological (and more broadly, ethnographic) development of core ideas and methodologies concerning personhood, narrative, and culture making. Our approach to the study of the Mediterranean focuses less on why ant…
Heritage Washed Ashore: Underwater Archaeology and Regionalist Imaginaries in the Central Mediterranean
Where do we go when we follow the money? The political-economic construction of Antimafia investigators in Western Sicily
This paper traces the changing role of wealth and movements of money in investigators' evolving anthropological imagination of the social structure of the Sicilian Cosa Nostra and its relationship with its surrounding in key moments of Antimafia investigations in one Sicilian province over the past 40 years. The routes of money, which initially marked exchange-based relations between two otherwise mutually extraneous actors, gradually indexed a m…
The Mediterranean Incarnate: Region Formation between Sicily and Tunisia since World War II
Transnational Political Cosmology: A Central Mediterranean Example
This paper examines the workings of kinship and marriage idioms in transnational political imaginary in the central Mediterranean to challenge current academic reliance on the notion of fraternity as the symbolic building block of both national and global political relations. Since the 1960s, the Sicilian town of Mazara del Vallo and its fishing fleet have become entwined in intensifying interactions with Tunisia and the wider Maghreb. These inte…
The men who knew too much
This historical anthropology of the rise and fall of Israel's post-1948 sardine purse-seining development project shows what happens when marginalized groups, who are initially excluded as "backward" or "primitive", enter modernization projects that are based on politics of skillfulness and experts' control over the labor process. By focusing on the role that skills play in the struggle between experts and artisans over the labor process, I show …
The reluctant seafarers: Fishing, self-acculturation and the stumbling Zionist colonisation of the Palestine Coast in the interbellum period
This paper offers a historical anthropology of fishing in Palestine in the decade preceding the 1948 war. It focuses on the polarisation, engendered by the Zionist Fisheries Project, between ‘modern’ fishing – designated for Jews within the project – and ‘primitive’ fishing, limited in scale and seasonal, which was gradually imagined by both British officers and Jewish bureaucrats as the destiny of Palestinian fishermen, in sharp contradiction to…
The moral perils of Mediterraneanism: Second-generation immigrants practicing personhood between Sicily and Tunisia
Second-generation immigrants are often imagined by social scientists, their receiving communities, their parents, and sometimes also by themselves, as those who should close the cycle of immigration that their parents have opened. Inasmuch as Italy is a contender in the international competition for the most 'Mediterranean' of countries, those youths are expected either to become Italian, fail to do so, or ascend to the globalized sphere of multi…
Transnational Political Cosmology: A Central Mediterranean Example
This paper examines the workings of kinship and marriage idioms in transnational political imaginary in the central Mediterranean to challenge current academic reliance on the notion of fraternity as the symbolic building block of both national and global political relations. Since the 1960s, the Sicilian town of Mazara del Vallo and its fishing fleet have become entwined in intensifying interactions with Tunisia and the wider Maghreb. These inte…
Introduction: Remapping Mediterranean anthropology
We introduce this special issue, which re-examines the fluctuating fortunes of the Mediterranean in anthropology and ask what it offers for contemporary anthropological explorations. We locate the Mediterranean within the history of anthropological (and more broadly, ethnographic) development of core ideas and methodologies concerning personhood, narrative, and culture making. Our approach to the study of the Mediterranean focuses less on why ant…
Where do we go when we follow the money? The political-economic construction of Antimafia investigators in Western Sicily
This paper traces the changing role of wealth and movements of money in investigators' evolving anthropological imagination of the social structure of the Sicilian Cosa Nostra and its relationship with its surrounding in key moments of Antimafia investigations in one Sicilian province over the past 40 years. The routes of money, which initially marked exchange-based relations between two otherwise mutually extraneous actors, gradually indexed a m…
The moral perils of Mediterraneanism: Second-generation immigrants practicing personhood between Sicily and Tunisia
Second-generation immigrants are often imagined by social scientists, their receiving communities, their parents, and sometimes also by themselves, as those who should close the cycle of immigration that their parents have opened. Inasmuch as Italy is a contender in the international competition for the most 'Mediterranean' of countries, those youths are expected either to become Italian, fail to do so, or ascend to the globalized sphere of multi…
The reluctant seafarers: Fishing, self-acculturation and the stumbling Zionist colonisation of the Palestine Coast in the interbellum period
This paper offers a historical anthropology of fishing in Palestine in the decade preceding the 1948 war. It focuses on the polarisation, engendered by the Zionist Fisheries Project, between ‘modern’ fishing – designated for Jews within the project – and ‘primitive’ fishing, limited in scale and seasonal, which was gradually imagined by both British officers and Jewish bureaucrats as the destiny of Palestinian fishermen, in sharp contradiction to…
The moral perils of Mediterraneanism: Second-generation immigrants practicing personhood between Sicily and Tunisia
Second-generation immigrants are often imagined by social scientists, their receiving communities, their parents, and sometimes also by themselves, as those who should close the cycle of immigration that their parents have opened. Inasmuch as Italy is a contender in the international competition for the most 'Mediterranean' of countries, those youths are expected either to become Italian, fail to do so, or ascend to the globalized sphere of multi…
The reluctant seafarers: Fishing, self-acculturation and the stumbling Zionist colonisation of the Palestine Coast in the interbellum period
This paper offers a historical anthropology of fishing in Palestine in the decade preceding the 1948 war. It focuses on the polarisation, engendered by the Zionist Fisheries Project, between ‘modern’ fishing – designated for Jews within the project – and ‘primitive’ fishing, limited in scale and seasonal, which was gradually imagined by both British officers and Jewish bureaucrats as the destiny of Palestinian fishermen, in sharp contradiction to…
The men who knew too much
This historical anthropology of the rise and fall of Israel's post-1948 sardine purse-seining development project shows what happens when marginalized groups, who are initially excluded as "backward" or "primitive", enter modernization projects that are based on politics of skillfulness and experts' control over the labor process. By focusing on the role that skills play in the struggle between experts and artisans over the labor process, I show …
Transnational Political Cosmology: A Central Mediterranean Example
This paper examines the workings of kinship and marriage idioms in transnational political imaginary in the central Mediterranean to challenge current academic reliance on the notion of fraternity as the symbolic building block of both national and global political relations. Since the 1960s, the Sicilian town of Mazara del Vallo and its fishing fleet have become entwined in intensifying interactions with Tunisia and the wider Maghreb. These inte…
The Mediterranean Incarnate: Region Formation between Sicily and Tunisia since World War II
Heritage Washed Ashore: Underwater Archaeology and Regionalist Imaginaries in the Central Mediterranean
Where do we go when we follow the money? The political-economic construction of Antimafia investigators in Western Sicily
This paper traces the changing role of wealth and movements of money in investigators' evolving anthropological imagination of the social structure of the Sicilian Cosa Nostra and its relationship with its surrounding in key moments of Antimafia investigations in one Sicilian province over the past 40 years. The routes of money, which initially marked exchange-based relations between two otherwise mutually extraneous actors, gradually indexed a m…
Introduction: Remapping Mediterranean anthropology
We introduce this special issue, which re-examines the fluctuating fortunes of the Mediterranean in anthropology and ask what it offers for contemporary anthropological explorations. We locate the Mediterranean within the history of anthropological (and more broadly, ethnographic) development of core ideas and methodologies concerning personhood, narrative, and culture making. Our approach to the study of the Mediterranean focuses less on why ant…
Forum: Piracy, Protection, and the Anthropology of Law at Sea
Follow the relationship: A note on Jatin Dua’s Captured at Sea: Piracy and Protection in the Western Indian Ocean Protection recaptured: Reflections on Jatin Dua’s Captured at Sea: Piracy and Protection in the Western Indian Ocean Protection’s possibility: On histories and geographies of concepts
Criminalization on trial
Afterword: Sicily Within and Without the Mediterranean
As If You Were Brothers: The Criminalization of Ritual Kinship
The criminalization of ritual fraternity traverses current writing on crime and criminalization because it foregrounds not marginalization but a political form of fraternity—that the criminalizing state shares with the targeted social formations (some of which are powerful). In 1982, Italy criminalized two kinds of association: Mafia-type organizations and secretive associations. Subsequent investigations and trials foregrounded the role of ritua…
Archaeology (5 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Geography (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Mediterranean climate (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Sicilian (4 works) · Sociology (4 works)