Thin Description Ethnography and the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem

Name: Thin Description Ethnography and the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem
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ISBN: 9780674049666

ISBN-10: 0674049667

ISBN-13: 9780674049666

Edition: 2013

Authors: John L. Jackson, John L. Jackson

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The African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem are often dismissed as a fringe cult for their beliefs that African Americans are descendants of the ancient Israelites and that veganism leads to immortality. But John L. Jackson questions what "fringe" means in a world where cultural practices of every stripe circulate freely on the Internet. In this poignant and sophisticated examination of the limits of ethnography, the reader is invited into the visionary, sometimes vexing world of the AHIJ. Jackson challenges what Clifford Geertz called the "thick description" of anthropological research through a multidisciplinary investigation of how the AHIJ use media and technology to define their public…

Book details

List price: $60.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 11/4/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 404
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.39" tall
Weight: 1.628
Language: English

John L. Jackson, Jr., is the Richard Perry University Professor of Communication and Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. He is author of Harlemworld and Real Black.




Passover



Introductions



Artscience



Megiddo



Chicago



Exiles



Backstage



Analogies



Asiel



Hustling



Ignorance



YMCA



UnAfrican



Empress



Camps



Liberia



Visitations



Immortality



Jungle



Thin



Carrel



Orientalism



Digital



Children



Eden



Disciplining



Zimreeyah



Sincere



Casein



Prodigal



Esau



Soul



Laughing



Occulted



Order



Genesis



Insincerities



Sumerians



Munir



Brochure



Rabbi



Hebrews



Zombie



MLK



Seconds


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index