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Thin Description : Ethnography and the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem / John L. Jackson Jr.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (404 p.) : 8 halftonesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674049666
  • 9780674726253
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.89605694 23/eng
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- One. Passover -- Two. Introductions -- Three. Artscience -- Four. Megiddo -- Five. Chicago -- Six. Exiles -- Seven. Backstage -- Eight. Analogies -- Nine. Asiel -- Ten. Hustling -- Eleven. Ignorance -- Twelve. YMCA -- Thirteen. UnAfrican -- Fourteen. Empress -- Fifteen. Camps -- Sixteen. Liberia -- Seventeen. Visitations -- Eighteen. Immortality -- Nineteen. Jungle -- Twenty. Thin -- Twenty-One. Carrel -- Twenty-Two. Orientalism -- Twenty-Three. Digital -- Twenty-Four. Children -- Twenty-Five. Eden -- Twenty-Six. Disciplining -- Twenty-Seven. Zimreeyah -- Twenty-Eight. Sincere -- Twenty-Nine. Casein -- Thirty. Prodigal -- Thirty-One. Esau -- Thirty-Two. Soul -- Thirty-Three. Laughing -- Thirty-Four. Occulted -- Thirty-Five. Order -- Thirty-Six. Genesis -- Thirty-Seven. Insincerities -- Thirty-Eight. Sumerians -- Thirty-Nine. Munir -- Forty. Brochure -- Forty-One. Rabbi -- Forty-Two. Hebrews -- Forty-Three. Zombie -- Forty-Four. MLK -- Forty-Five. Seconds -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Summary: 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 image in the twenty-first century. Moving beyond the "modest witness" of nineteenth-century scientific discourse or the "thick descriptions" of twentieth-century anthropology, Jackson insists that Geertzian thickness is impossible, especially in a world where the anthropologist's subjects craft their own self-ethnographies and critically consume the ethnographer's offerings. Taking as its topic a group situated along the fault lines of several diasporas--African, American, Jewish--Thin Description provides an account of how race, religion, and ethnographic representation must be understood anew in the twenty-first century, lest we reenact old mistakes in the study of black humanity.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- One. Passover -- Two. Introductions -- Three. Artscience -- Four. Megiddo -- Five. Chicago -- Six. Exiles -- Seven. Backstage -- Eight. Analogies -- Nine. Asiel -- Ten. Hustling -- Eleven. Ignorance -- Twelve. YMCA -- Thirteen. UnAfrican -- Fourteen. Empress -- Fifteen. Camps -- Sixteen. Liberia -- Seventeen. Visitations -- Eighteen. Immortality -- Nineteen. Jungle -- Twenty. Thin -- Twenty-One. Carrel -- Twenty-Two. Orientalism -- Twenty-Three. Digital -- Twenty-Four. Children -- Twenty-Five. Eden -- Twenty-Six. Disciplining -- Twenty-Seven. Zimreeyah -- Twenty-Eight. Sincere -- Twenty-Nine. Casein -- Thirty. Prodigal -- Thirty-One. Esau -- Thirty-Two. Soul -- Thirty-Three. Laughing -- Thirty-Four. Occulted -- Thirty-Five. Order -- Thirty-Six. Genesis -- Thirty-Seven. Insincerities -- Thirty-Eight. Sumerians -- Thirty-Nine. Munir -- Forty. Brochure -- Forty-One. Rabbi -- Forty-Two. Hebrews -- Forty-Three. Zombie -- Forty-Four. MLK -- Forty-Five. Seconds -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index

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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 image in the twenty-first century. Moving beyond the "modest witness" of nineteenth-century scientific discourse or the "thick descriptions" of twentieth-century anthropology, Jackson insists that Geertzian thickness is impossible, especially in a world where the anthropologist's subjects craft their own self-ethnographies and critically consume the ethnographer's offerings. Taking as its topic a group situated along the fault lines of several diasporas--African, American, Jewish--Thin Description provides an account of how race, religion, and ethnographic representation must be understood anew in the twenty-first century, lest we reenact old mistakes in the study of black humanity.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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