Book
Overlooking Nazareth: the ethnography of exclusion in a town in Galilee
Cambridge University Press • New York • Published In 1996 • Pages: xiv, 222
By: Rabinowitz, Dan.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a study of Israeli-Palestinian relations in the Israeli new town of Natzerat Illit built in 1957 on land overlooking the old Palestinian city of Nazereth. Natzerat Illit was originally built as a 'development town' for new immigrants to Israel, part of the state's overall Judaization policy of the Lower Galilee, a region heavily populated by Palestinians. Beginning in the 1970s, Palestinians began to move into Illit Natzerat, mostly coming from Nazareth, creating a mixed town. Rabinowitz examines Israeli-Palestinian relations in the context of the divided real-estate market and educational system, a Palestinian coaching an Israeli basketball team, a top-notch Palestinian doctor administering to Jewish patients, and a Palestinian politician attempting to run for municipal office. According to Rabinowitz, there is a disconnect between Israelis' western liberal democratic ethos that lauds hard work, equal opportunity, and merit-based achievement, and their discrimination against, and marginalization of, Palestinian citizens.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- External migration
- Settlement patterns
- Ethnic stratification
- External relations
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Palestinians
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2005
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle East
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Middle East
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard ; 2004
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1988-1995
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1957-1993
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Natzerat Illit, Galilee, Israel
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Dan Rabinowitz
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-215) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 96011922
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Palestinian Arabs