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Contributors Eyal Ben-Ari is associate professor at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and senior research fellow at the Harry S. Truman Research Institute of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Social Anthropology of the University of Cambridge and carries out research on Japanese society and culture, the anthropology of organizations and social and cultural aspects of the military. His most recent publications include Changing Japanese Suburbia (London: Kegan Paul International ) and a forthcoming volume Body Projects in Japanese Childcare (London: Curzon). Orit Ben-David is a doctoral candidate at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology of Tel-Aviv University. Her current research interests involve cultural aspects of organ transplants in Israel. Her MA thesis explored the dynamics of The Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel. Yoram Bilu holds a joint appointment with the Department of Psychology and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem from which he received his Ph.D. in 1978. His research interests include psychological anthropology, ethnopsychiatry, dreaming and culture, folk-religion in Israel, and Moroccan Jews. His recent publications include Without Bounds: The Life and Death of Rabbi Ya'acov Wazana (Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1993) and "Culture and Mental Health in Israel" (in Culture and Mental Health, an International Perspective, I. Al-Issa (ed.), Madison: International Universities Press, 1995). Jonathan Boyarin lives is New York City. He has written and edited several books, recently including Thinking in Jewish and Palestine and Jewish History . He currently studies at Yale Law School. 237 Contributors Eyal Ben-Ari is associate professor at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and senior research fellow at the Harry S. Truman Research Institute of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Social Anthropology of the University of Cambridge and carries out research on Japanese society and culture, the anthropology of organizations and social and cultural aspects of the military. His Inost recent publications include Changing Japanese Suburbia (London: Kegan Paul International ) and a forthcoming volume Body Projects in Japanese Childcare (London: Curzon). Orit Ben-David is a doctoral candidate at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology of Tel-Aviv University. Her current research interests involve cultural aspects of organ transplants in Israel. Her MA thesis explored the dynamics of The Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel. Yoram Bilu holds a joint appointment with the Department of Psychology and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem from which he received his Ph.D. in 1978. His research interests include psychological anthropology, ethnopsychiatry, dreaming and culture, folk-religion in Israel, and Moroccan Jews. His recent publications include Without Bounds: The Life and Death of Rabbi Ya'acov Wazana (Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1993) and "Culture and Mental Health in Israel" (in Culture and Mental Health, an International Perspective, I. AI-Issa (ed.), Madison: International Universities Press, 1995). Jonathan Boyarin lives is New York City. He has written and edited several books, recently including Thinking in Jewish and Palestine and Jewish History . He currently studies at Yale Law School. 237 238 Contributors Harvey E. Goldberg is professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research concerns ethnicity in Israeli society and the social and cultural history of North African Jewry. His most recent books are Jewish Life in Muslim Libya: Rivals and Relatives (Chicago: University of Chicago Press) and an edited volume : Sephardi and Middle Eastern Jewries: History and Culture in the Modern Era (Bloomington: Indiana University Press). Zali Gurevitch is senior lecturer at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His studies focus on the anthropology of place and language in Israeli society, and on the phenomenology of conversation, literature and culture. He has published essays in both areas, and is currently completing a book entitled The Break of Conversation . Don Handelman is professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research focuses on national symbolism, on myth and ritual in South India, and on theories of play and bureaucracy. He has been a Fellow of the Netherlands Institute For Advanced Study (NIAS), the Swedish Collegium For Advanced Study (SCASSS), and the Institute For Advanced Studies at The Hebrew University, as well as Academy of Finland visiting professor at the University of Helsinki and Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the University of Adelaide. Among his recent publications...

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