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HU Credits:
4
Degree/Cycle:
2nd degree (Master)
Responsible Department:
The Graduate Program for the Study of Folklore and Folk Culture
Semester:
Yearly
Teaching Languages:
Hebrew
Campus:
Mt. Scopus
Course/Module Coordinator:
Dr. Hagar Salamon
Coordinator Office Hours:
Tuesday, 15:00-16:00
Teaching Staff:
Prof Hagar Salamon
Course/Module description:
This seminar focuses on folk culture and folklore in present-day Israel, and the ethnographic research related to it. The powerful encounter between various ethnic groups, complex histories and multi-faceted inter-group relations all contribute to the unique creativity of Israeli folklore and folk expressions, which in turn affect the situations and the perception of the situations that they address. These folk expressions are the focus of the seminar. While reading related theoretical approaches and research papers, the students will take on their own research project and discuss their findings and analysis in class.
Course/Module aims:
To provide and elaborate ethnographic and analytic tools for studying folk culture in Israel.
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
To conduct research, present one's findings in class and write an independent paper dealing with folk culture in present day Israel.
Attendance requirements(%):
20% of the final grade is based on attendance. In order to receive the full 20% students must participate in 80% of the course meetings.
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
The seminar will be held once a week throughout the academic year. The course is based on discussions between the instructor and the students, during which the students will formulate and discuss their own research projects.
Course/Module Content:
The first semester is devoted to various perspectives in the study of Israeli folk culture, with a special look on public and private spheres; folk culture and religious culture in Israel; folk culture and inter-group expressions; folklore, politics and nationalism; poetics and politics of folk expressions.
The second semester is devoted to the discussion of students' individual research projects in class which result from the ethnographic and theoretical discussions that arise in the first semester.
Required Reading:
Briggs, Charles. and Shuman, Amy. 1993 – “Theorizing Folklore: Toward New Perspectives on the Politics of Culture”, Western Folklore, 52 (2-4), pp: 109-134.
חזן-רוקם, גלית. 1997 – "על חקר התרבות העממית: הקדמה" תיאוריה וביקורת, 10, עמ': 5 - 13.
Kapchan, Deborah A. and Turner Strong, Pauline. 1999 – “Theorizing the Hybrid”, Journal of American Folklore, 112 (445), pp: 239-253.
Abu-Lughod, Lila, and Lutz, Catherine, A. 1990 – “Introduction: emotion, discourse, and the politics of everyday life”, in Catherine, A. Lutz and Lila Abu-Lughod (eds.), Language and the Politics of Emotions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp: 1-23.
סלמון, הגר. תשס"א – "סטיקרים פוליטיים בישראל: הכביש כזירה עממית טעונת רגשות", מחקרי ירושלים בפולקלור יהודי, כ"א, עמ' 144-113 .
Noy, Chaim, 2011. – "The Semiotics of (Im)mobilities: Two Discursive Case Studies of the System of Automobility" in: Giuseppina Pellegrino (ed.), The Politics of Proximity: Mobility and Immobility in Practice. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Ltd, pp.: 61-81.
דשן, שלמה, 1997.- "ישראלים -חילוניים בליל הפסח: צלה של משפחתיות על סמלים דתיים", מגמות, לח (4).
אופיר, עדי, 2001. – "הגדה של פסח: מקרא מפורק" בתוך, עבודת ההווה: מסות על תרבות ישראלית בעת הזאת, הקיבוץ המאוחד, עמ' 85- 116.
Kravel M., and Y. Bilu. 2008 - “The Work of the Present: Constructing Messianic Temporality in the Wake of Failed Prophecy among Chabad Hasidim.” American Ethnologist, 35 (1), pp. 1-17.
בילו, יורם, 2013.- "'לעשות עוד הרבה מנחם מענדלים': עקרות, הולדה ובריאה בחב"ד המשיחית", מרקמים: תרבות, ספרות, פולקלור לגלית חזן-רוקם, כרך ב' עמ' 677-651.
Morgan, David. (ed). 2010. - Religion and Material Culture: The Matter of Belief. London: Routledge.
Salamon, H., 2002. - “Between Conscious and Subconscious: Depth-to-Depth Communication in the Ethnographic Space”, Ethos, 30 (3), 249-272.
Salamon, H., 2003. - “Blackness in Transition: Decoding Racial Construct Through Stories of Ethiopian Jews”, Journal of Folklore Research, 40 (1), pp: 3-32.
Salamon, H., 2007. - "The Ambivalence over the Levantinization of Israel: “David Levi” Jokes", Humor: International Journal for Humor Research, 20 (4), pp: 415-442.
רוזן, אילנה. תשנ"ה – "מחקר הפולקלור הגרמני בשירות האידיאולוגיה הנאצית" (מאמר סיקורת), מחקרי ירושלים בפולקלור יהודי, י"ז, עמ' 127-119.
Dow, James R. (ed.). 1991 – “Folklore, Politics and Nationalism”. Special Issue. Asian Folklore Studies 50.
Dow, James R. and Lixfeld, Hannjost (eds.), 1994 - The Nazification of an Academic Discipline – Folklore in the Third Reich. Bloomington, Indianapolis: Indiana University Press.
חזן-רוקם גלית. תשנ"ח – "היבטים של ייצוג ושל דו-שיח בחקר התרבות העממית: פואטיקה ופוליטיקה של פסטיבל שלא התקיים", מחקרי ירושלים בפולקלור יהודי, י"ט-כ, עמ' 473-459.
Karp, Ivan. 1991 – “Culture and Representation” in S. D.Lavine, and I. Karp (eds.), Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp: 11-24.
Lavine, Steven D. and Karp, Ivan. 1991 – “Introduction: Museums and Multiculturalism” in their (eds.), Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp: 1-9.
Stein Rebecca L., and Ted Swedenburg (eds.), 2005 - Palestine, Israel, and the Politics of Popular Culture. Duke University Press.
Stein. Rebecca L. 2008 - "Souvenirs of Conquest: Israeli Occupations as Tourist Events." International Journal of Middle East Studies, 40, pp: 647-669.
Stein. Rebecca L. 2010 - "Israeli Routes Through Nakba Landscapes: An Ethnographic Meditation." Jerusalem Quarterly, 43.
יסיף, עלי. 1998 – "לגלות את ישראל האחרת: העיתונאי כאתנוגרף וכמבקר תרבות", בתוך: א' אבוהב, א' הרצוג, ה' גולדברג, ע' מרקס (עורכים), ישראל: אנתרופולוגיה מקומית, תל אביב: צ'ריקובר, עמ' 550-525.
Additional Reading Material:
Additional reading is related to the individual research projects
Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 0 %
Presentation 0 %
Participation in Tutorials 20 %
Project work 80 %
Assignments 0 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 0 %
Additional information:
The seminar in open to outstanding BA students
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