Rite of passing
Bureaucratic encounters, dramaturgy, and Jewish conversion in Israel
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2279363 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M Kravel-Tovi (0000-0002-1465-4086, University of Michigan, corresponding author), Michal Kravel‐tovi |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 371-388 |
| Publication date | 2012-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Ethnologist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-0496 • E-ISSN: 1548-1425 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01370.x |
| OpenAlex | W1941189713 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 25 |
| References cited | 74 |
On the basis of an ethnographic analysis of the state-run Jewish conversion project in Israel, I address the question of how bureaucrats come to know the subjects they serve. By analyzing how state agents construct the bureaucratic encounter with converts as a dramaturgical exchange, I theorize performance as an institutional mechanism through which bureaucratic knowledge is produced. The notion of "dramaturgy" sheds light not only on the everyday practices of state governmental power but also on the fragile, collaborative dynamics that underwrite the bureaucratic encounter. Such an analysis offers to complicate the notion of "power/knowledge" so often associated with bureaucratic institutions. [bureaucracy, ethnography of the state, Israel, passing, performance, power/knowledge, religious conversion
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Bureaucracy · Construct (python library · Dramaturgy · Epistemology · Ethnography · Judaism · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Rite · Sociology · State (computer science · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Computer Science · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Middle East Politics and Society · Philosophy
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| Unique citing works | 25 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,92 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2026 (14) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 25 |