Communal Webs

Tamar Katriel

ISBN 10: 0791406458 / ISBN 13: 9780791406458

Published by State University of New York Press, US, 1991

This book brings together insights derived from a detailed exploration of Israeli cultural patterns of communication, highlighting their role in the processes of culture formation, maintenance, and change. Katriel's ethnographic examples provide a richly-textured account of Israeli cultural experience, illustrating the potential of a cultural analysis grounded in the study of ideologically-informed communicative practices.The author addresses central issues in contemporary anthropology and human communication studies such as the identification of cultural communication patterns in ethnographic research, conceptualizations of the notions of culture and community, the rhetorical force of cultural communication forms, the role of ritualization in communication and social processes, the critical potential of ethnographic work, and the ethnographer's stance in studying one's own culture. Seller Inventory # LU-9780791406458

Synopsis:

This book brings together insights derived from a detailed exploration of Israeli cultural patterns of communication, highlighting their role in the processes of culture formation, maintenance, and change. Katriel's ethnographic examples provide a richly-textured account of Israeli cultural experience, illustrating the potential of a cultural analysis grounded in the study of ideologically-informed communicative practices.

The author addresses central issues in contemporary anthropology and human communication studies such as the identification of cultural communication patterns in ethnographic research, conceptualizations of the notions of culture and community, the rhetorical force of cultural communication forms, the role of ritualization in communication and social processes, the critical potential of ethnographic work, and the ethnographer's stance in studying one's own culture.

About the Author: Tamar Katriel is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Education, University of Haifa, Israel. She is the author of Talking Straight: 'Dugri' Speech in Israeli Sabra Culture.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Communal Webs
Publisher: State University of New York Press, US
Publication Date: 1991
Binding: Paperback
Condition: New