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Thin description : ethnography and the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem / John L. Jackson, Jr.

By: Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (vii, 394 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674726253
  • 0674726251
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Thin descriptionDDC classification:
  • 305.8/9605694 23
LOC classification:
  • BP605.B63 J33 2013eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem are often dismissed as a fringe cult, but John L. Jackson questions what "fringe" means when cultural practices of every stripe circulate freely on the Internet. He reveals how race, religion, and ethnographic representation must be understood anew in the 21st century lest we reenact past errors.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-375) and index.

Print version record.

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.

African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem are often dismissed as a fringe cult, but John L. Jackson questions what "fringe" means when cultural practices of every stripe circulate freely on the Internet. He reveals how race, religion, and ethnographic representation must be understood anew in the 21st century lest we reenact past errors.

In English.

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