Book
Memories of revolt: the 1936-1939 rebellion and the Palestinian national past
University of Arkansas Press • Fayetteville, Ark. • Published In 2003 • Pages:
By: Swedenburg, Ted.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a study of popular memory of the Great Revolt of 1936-1939. Swedenburg interviews elderly fighters involved in the rebellion. He discovers that their stories are affected by Israeli repression of Palestinain memory and history. Also, there is an effort by the elderly MUJÂHIDÎN 'to protect the Palestinian image and to project a history of national unity and propriety' (p. xxvii) and not expose their 'society's fault lines.' Swedenburg's challenge is to read between the lines and discern the 'fractured history' of the revolt and account for the silences, dissimulations, and avoidances of 'active forgetting.' By hearing various accounts of a similar events he is also able to reconstruct a plausible history that reveals the complexity of internal struggles that occurred within the revolt, without discrediting the movement as a whole.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Ingroup antagonisms
- External relations
- Revolution
- Warfare
- Aftermath of combat
- Cult of the dead
- Ethnosociology
- 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
- 1984-1985
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1929-1989
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Israel and Occupied Territories
- NotesAdditional notes
- Ted Swedenburg
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-258) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 2003050733
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Palestinian Arabs