Yehuda C Goodman
Biographic Data
| ID | 98839 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yehuda C Goodman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yehuda C |
| FAMILY NAME | Goodman |
| SIGNATURE | GOODMAN Y C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7662-7075 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 95 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Paradoxical bodies
This ethnographic project explores how inherent discursive and social tensions are expressed and worked out within obesity care at a weight-loss surgical (WLS) clinic. First, complicated doctor and patient encounters occur because WLS follows a medical logic of intervention and is presented as a “ biomagical ” procedure that miraculously alters the body. Surgeons, however, explain that the surgery’s success depends on patients’ long and hard work…
He Should Party a Little Less
“For Me, ‘Normality’ is Not Normal”
Where Do You Draw the Line
Based on participant observations in life drawing classes at an art academy in Jerusalem, this article examines the diverse ways artists-in-the-making work out the boundaries between "art" and "non-art." First, the classes serve as a rite of passage in which actors deploy discursive, spatial, and sensorial practices to relate to and represent the live model as a unique object of art. Second, using the model evokes moral deliberations through whic…
Beyond Ethics
In professional therapeutic settings, care-providers are required to work through dilemmas in light of a professional ethics that demands the suppression of other aspects that may inform their moral experiences. Drawing upon in-depth conversations with Jewish-Israeli female social workers who talked about dilemmas at work, we analyse how they carry out such deliberations. When recounting their dilemmas, social workers relied on shared professiona…
“You can’t choose these emotions… they simply jump up”
From Posttrauma Intervention to Immunization of the Social Body
The Other as Brother
Most depictions of "peripheral," nation-states' anthropologies assume that the anthropology's Other is a given, pre-defined subordinated group. Using the beginnings of Israeli anthropology (1960s-1970s) as our case study, we explore instead how while appropriating academic dominant paradigms of the time and aspiring to national unity, Israeli anthropologists were articulating through their choices of research subjects and research topics, and thr…
You Look, Thank God, Quite Good on the Outside
Rather than viewing therapeutic interventions as either compliance or resistance to the social order, I analyze them as mimesis of cultural ideal selves. In particular, I examine the new mediations of the social order constituted in mimetic therapeutic practices and their entailed creativity and ambivalence. Drawing on participant observation in a Jewish ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) rehabilitation site I explore how, given the ruptures brought about i…
A Collective of Individuals
Journal Article "A Collective of Individuals": Between Self and Solidarity in a Rainbow Gathering Get access Iddo Tavory, Iddo Tavory University of California, Los Angeles E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Yehuda C. Goodman Yehuda C. Goodman The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 70,…
I don't want to see it
Social inequality in Israel's education system has often been analysed with top-down structural models. This study inquires, instead, how students understand their position in the stratified structure of opportunities at school. Our quantitative and qualitative data, gathered in Jewish high schools in Israel, indicate that, despite clear ethno-class distribution in academic tracking, students reject the logic of identity politics and consider 'fr…
The Holocaust does not belong to European Jews alone
On the basis of participant‐observations of classroom discussions in Jewish Israeli high schools during two memorial days, we examine how different ethnoclass groups within a presumably consensual national collectivity remember the nation. We found that teachers use different memory techniques with different groups of students and in relation to different historical memories, and we suggest that doing so variously repositions subgroups toward the…
Cross-cultural encounters between careproviders
Dynamics of Inclusion and Exclusion
Narrative Construction of Distress and Therapy
Based on therapeutic work and research carried out in a psychiatric clinic in Israel that specializes in the Jewish Ultra-Orthodox community, we suggest a culturally adapted narrative paradigm for the understanding and treatment of mental disorders. We analyze five stories of illness to show how individual distress is constructed as a dramatic narrative inspired by shared cultural symbols and enacted in specific interpersonal and social contexts.…
Further Reflections on Therapy, Psychology, Anthropology and the Haredim
Les AA. repondent a plusiers commentaires critiques sur leur etude (parue dans le meme numero) relative a un modele psychotherapeutique elabore a partir de la construction du recit sur la douleur et la maladie parmi des patients originaires d'une communaute religieuse ultra-orthodoxe (Heredim) de Jerusalem. Ils posent les questions de la valeur d'une specificite des themes de narration, des liens entre l'individu, la communaute et les modes de na…
What Does the Soul Say
Facilitated communication (FC), a set of techniques designed to improve the communication skills of children with pervasive developmental disorders, was transformed in the Jewish ultraorthodox community into a mystical device through which autistic children disclose otherworldly messages. We use this case to study the process whereby, in a given historical moment, specific forms of deviance are selected and molded into ritualized moralistic perfo…
I don't want to see it
Social inequality in Israel's education system has often been analysed with top-down structural models. This study inquires, instead, how students understand their position in the stratified structure of opportunities at school. Our quantitative and qualitative data, gathered in Jewish high schools in Israel, indicate that, despite clear ethno-class distribution in academic tracking, students reject the logic of identity politics and consider 'fr…
What Does the Soul Say
Facilitated communication (FC), a set of techniques designed to improve the communication skills of children with pervasive developmental disorders, was transformed in the Jewish ultraorthodox community into a mystical device through which autistic children disclose otherworldly messages. We use this case to study the process whereby, in a given historical moment, specific forms of deviance are selected and molded into ritualized moralistic perfo…
Cross-cultural encounters between careproviders
The Holocaust does not belong to European Jews alone
On the basis of participant‐observations of classroom discussions in Jewish Israeli high schools during two memorial days, we examine how different ethnoclass groups within a presumably consensual national collectivity remember the nation. We found that teachers use different memory techniques with different groups of students and in relation to different historical memories, and we suggest that doing so variously repositions subgroups toward the…
A Collective of Individuals
Journal Article "A Collective of Individuals": Between Self and Solidarity in a Rainbow Gathering Get access Iddo Tavory, Iddo Tavory University of California, Los Angeles E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Yehuda C. Goodman Yehuda C. Goodman The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 70,…
Beyond Ethics
In professional therapeutic settings, care-providers are required to work through dilemmas in light of a professional ethics that demands the suppression of other aspects that may inform their moral experiences. Drawing upon in-depth conversations with Jewish-Israeli female social workers who talked about dilemmas at work, we analyse how they carry out such deliberations. When recounting their dilemmas, social workers relied on shared professiona…
He Should Party a Little Less
You Look, Thank God, Quite Good on the Outside
Rather than viewing therapeutic interventions as either compliance or resistance to the social order, I analyze them as mimesis of cultural ideal selves. In particular, I examine the new mediations of the social order constituted in mimetic therapeutic practices and their entailed creativity and ambivalence. Drawing on participant observation in a Jewish ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) rehabilitation site I explore how, given the ruptures brought about i…
The Other as Brother
Most depictions of "peripheral," nation-states' anthropologies assume that the anthropology's Other is a given, pre-defined subordinated group. Using the beginnings of Israeli anthropology (1960s-1970s) as our case study, we explore instead how while appropriating academic dominant paradigms of the time and aspiring to national unity, Israeli anthropologists were articulating through their choices of research subjects and research topics, and thr…
What Does the Soul Say
Facilitated communication (FC), a set of techniques designed to improve the communication skills of children with pervasive developmental disorders, was transformed in the Jewish ultraorthodox community into a mystical device through which autistic children disclose otherworldly messages. We use this case to study the process whereby, in a given historical moment, specific forms of deviance are selected and molded into ritualized moralistic perfo…
Narrative Construction of Distress and Therapy
Based on therapeutic work and research carried out in a psychiatric clinic in Israel that specializes in the Jewish Ultra-Orthodox community, we suggest a culturally adapted narrative paradigm for the understanding and treatment of mental disorders. We analyze five stories of illness to show how individual distress is constructed as a dramatic narrative inspired by shared cultural symbols and enacted in specific interpersonal and social contexts.…
Further Reflections on Therapy, Psychology, Anthropology and the Haredim
Les AA. repondent a plusiers commentaires critiques sur leur etude (parue dans le meme numero) relative a un modele psychotherapeutique elabore a partir de la construction du recit sur la douleur et la maladie parmi des patients originaires d'une communaute religieuse ultra-orthodoxe (Heredim) de Jerusalem. Ils posent les questions de la valeur d'une specificite des themes de narration, des liens entre l'individu, la communaute et les modes de na…
Dynamics of Inclusion and Exclusion
Cross-cultural encounters between careproviders
The Holocaust does not belong to European Jews alone
On the basis of participant‐observations of classroom discussions in Jewish Israeli high schools during two memorial days, we examine how different ethnoclass groups within a presumably consensual national collectivity remember the nation. We found that teachers use different memory techniques with different groups of students and in relation to different historical memories, and we suggest that doing so variously repositions subgroups toward the…
The Other as Brother
Most depictions of "peripheral," nation-states' anthropologies assume that the anthropology's Other is a given, pre-defined subordinated group. Using the beginnings of Israeli anthropology (1960s-1970s) as our case study, we explore instead how while appropriating academic dominant paradigms of the time and aspiring to national unity, Israeli anthropologists were articulating through their choices of research subjects and research topics, and thr…
You Look, Thank God, Quite Good on the Outside
Rather than viewing therapeutic interventions as either compliance or resistance to the social order, I analyze them as mimesis of cultural ideal selves. In particular, I examine the new mediations of the social order constituted in mimetic therapeutic practices and their entailed creativity and ambivalence. Drawing on participant observation in a Jewish ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) rehabilitation site I explore how, given the ruptures brought about i…
A Collective of Individuals
Journal Article "A Collective of Individuals": Between Self and Solidarity in a Rainbow Gathering Get access Iddo Tavory, Iddo Tavory University of California, Los Angeles E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Yehuda C. Goodman Yehuda C. Goodman The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 70,…
I don't want to see it
Social inequality in Israel's education system has often been analysed with top-down structural models. This study inquires, instead, how students understand their position in the stratified structure of opportunities at school. Our quantitative and qualitative data, gathered in Jewish high schools in Israel, indicate that, despite clear ethno-class distribution in academic tracking, students reject the logic of identity politics and consider 'fr…
From Posttrauma Intervention to Immunization of the Social Body
“You can’t choose these emotions… they simply jump up”
Beyond Ethics
In professional therapeutic settings, care-providers are required to work through dilemmas in light of a professional ethics that demands the suppression of other aspects that may inform their moral experiences. Drawing upon in-depth conversations with Jewish-Israeli female social workers who talked about dilemmas at work, we analyse how they carry out such deliberations. When recounting their dilemmas, social workers relied on shared professiona…
Where Do You Draw the Line
Based on participant observations in life drawing classes at an art academy in Jerusalem, this article examines the diverse ways artists-in-the-making work out the boundaries between "art" and "non-art." First, the classes serve as a rite of passage in which actors deploy discursive, spatial, and sensorial practices to relate to and represent the live model as a unique object of art. Second, using the model evokes moral deliberations through whic…
“For Me, ‘Normality’ is Not Normal”
He Should Party a Little Less
Paradoxical bodies
This ethnographic project explores how inherent discursive and social tensions are expressed and worked out within obesity care at a weight-loss surgical (WLS) clinic. First, complicated doctor and patient encounters occur because WLS follows a medical logic of intervention and is presented as a “ biomagical ” procedure that miraculously alters the body. Surgeons, however, explain that the surgery’s success depends on patients’ long and hard work…
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