Social Critique and Commitment: Essays in Honor of Henry Rosenfeld

Reference & Research Book News, August, 2005

DS119

2005-921316

0-7618-3149-5

Social critique and commitment; essays in honor of Henry Rosenfeld.

Title main entry. Ed. by Majid Al-Haj et al.

Univ. Press of America, [c]2005

355 p.

$45.00 (pa)

Anthropologists and other social scientists consider Israel critically in terms not only of its difficulties and inequities, but also of some of its prevalent beliefs and some of the consequences of its existence for the Middle East as a whole. Among their topics are the rhetoric of the destruction of the Israeli welfare state, suicide terrorism and America's mission impossible, and the lifeline of Bedouins as roving traders in south Sinai. An interview with Rosenfeld is included. There is no index.