Thank You for Dying for Our Country : Commemorative Texts and Performances in Jerusalem /
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...
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| 语言: | 英语 |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2015]
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| 丛编: | Oxford studies in the anthropology of language.
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| 在线阅读: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=989247 |
书本目录:
- 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