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Author:   Chaim Noy (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, University of South Florida)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 23.90cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 16.00cm
Weight:   0.630kg
ISBN:  

9780199398973

ISBN 10:   0199398976
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   27 August 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Prologue Itinerary Part 1. SIGNING IN 1. Tourists' Traces Performing tourism Languaging tourism and heritage The ethnography of texts A medium's history Visiting visitor books 2. The Ammunition Hill Museum: Authenticity, Bunkers and Language Ideology In the museum Generals' autographs and soldiers' love letters Postscript I Part 2. THANK YOU FOR DYING FOR OUR COUNTRY 3. The Ammunition Hill Visitor Book: Inside-Out and Outside-In Commemorative affordances from within Figures of the 2005-2006 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 challenges 6. ""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 Soldiers - I'm mad about you"" Families' commemoration performances Contesting masculinities Part 3. 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 hegemony ""For Kacha the untiring!"": Elite networking ""The Temple Mount is in Our Hands"" International VIPs: Jews, Generals and three Jordanian Officers 9. Ethnography² Undoing the ethnographic Dasein or being (looked at) there Collecting practices The story toes tell: (Dis)embodied (re)presentation Performance ethnography and the occurrence of the academic text 10. Conclusions Postscript II Transcription conventions References"

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Professor Chaim Noy is an expert in language and communication, and has devoted six years to an ethnography of visitors who write in the Ammunition Hill visitor book, and to reading their texts... [this] book includes a linguistic, cultural and anthropological analysis of the visitor book, looking at as a window to the society and culture that writes it. --Haaretz Newspaper (this review has been translated from its original in Hebrew by Chaim Noy) Professor Chaim Noy is an expert in language and communication, and has devoted six years to an ethnography of visitors who write in the Ammunition Hill visitor book, and to reading their texts... [this] book includes a linguistic, cultural and anthropological analysis of the visitor book, looking at as a window to the society and culture that writes it. --Haaretz Newspaper (this review has been translated from its original in Hebrew by Chaim Noy)

Professor Chaim Noy is an expert in language and communication, and has devoted six years to an ethnography of visitors who write in the Ammunition Hill visitor book, and to reading their texts... [this] book includes a linguistic, cultural and anthropological analysis of the visitor book, looking at as a window to the society and culture that writes it. --Haaretz Newspaper (this review has been translated from its original in Hebrew by Chaim Noy)

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Chaim Noy is an interdisciplinary scholar focusing on qualitative and performative approaches to communication and interaction. He is Associate Professor at the University of South Florida.

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