Title Thank You for Dying for Our Country : Commemorative Texts and Performances in Jerusalem / Chaim Noy

Published New York : Oxford University Press, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource Series Oxford studies in the anthropology of language Oxford studies in the anthropology of language. Contents Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue; Itinerary; PART ONE: Signing In; 1. Tourists Traces; Performing Tourism; Languaging Tourism and Heritage; The Ethnography of Texts; A Mediums History; Visiting Visitor Books; 2. The Ammunition Hill Museum: Authenticity, Bunkers, and Language Ideology; In the Museum; Generals Autographs and Soldiers Love Letters; Postscript; PART TWO: Thank You for Dying for Our Country; 3. The Ammunition Hill Visitor Book: Inside Out and Outside In Commemorative Affordances from WithinFigures of the 20052006 Visitor Book; Commemoration Community; Collective Articulation; Aesthetic Articulation; Material Articulation; 4. I WAS HERE!!!: Indexicality and Voice; Commemoration Literacies and Writing and Reading Rituals; Signing; A Matrix of Signatures; Signers Identities, Signers Anonymity; Open Addressivity Structures; 5. Articulating Commemoration; Mediating Commemoration; Contesting Performances; Theological Non-Zionist Challenges Hyper-Zionist Ethnonational Challenges6. Write I Was Impressed and Not I Enjoyed: Co-Writing Commemoration; Playful Utterances; Words, Drawings, and Visual Narratives; 7. Gender and Familial Performances; Fought like Lions: Institutional Representations of Men; IDF SoldiersIm Mad About You; Families Commemoration Performances; Contesting Masculinities; PART THREE: Signing Out; 8. Like a Magazine Loaded with Bullets: The VIP Visitor Book; Managing Autographs: The Pragmatics of Signing Autographs Capital and the Reconstitution of HegemonyFor Kacha the untiring!: Elite Networking; The Temple Mount Is in Our Hands; International VIPs: Jews, Generals and Three Jordanian Officers; 9. Ethnography; Undoing the Ethnographic; Dasein, or Being-There (Looked at); Collecting Practices; The Story Toes Tell: Dis-embodied Re-presentation; Performance Ethnography and the Occurrence of the Academic Text; 10. Conclusions; Empirical and Methodological Takeaways; Postscript; Transcription Conventions; Notes Summary Combining ethnographic, semiotic, and performative approaches, the book examines texts and accompanying acts of writing in a visitor book in a national historic site. The visitor book is viewed as a mobilised stage, a communication medium, where visitors' public performances are presented, and where acts of collective participation are authored and composed. The study contextualises the visitor book within its material and ideological environment Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Vendor-supplied metadata Subject Heritage tourism -- Social aspects -- Jerusalem War memorials -- Social aspects -- Jerusalem Guest books -- Jerusalem Memorialization -- Jerusalem Museums -- Social aspects -- Jerusalem Memory -- Social aspects -- Jerusalem Collective memory -- Israel TRAVEL -- Asia -- General. Collective memory Guest books Heritage tourism -- Social aspects Memorialization Memory -- Social aspects Museums -- Social aspects Travel SUBJECT Jerusalem -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88002640 Givʻat ha-Taḥmoshet (Jerusalem) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2004050521 Subject Israel Middle East -- Jerusalem Middle East -- Jerusalem -- Givʻat ha-Taḥmoshet Form Electronic book ISBN 9780199398997 0199398992 9780199399000 019939900X

Other Titles Commemorative Texts and Performances in Jerusalem

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