Communal Webs: Communication and Culture in Contemporary Israel

By Tamar Katriel

Book Overview

This book brings together insights derived from a detailed exploration of Israeli cultural patterns of communication, highlighting their role in the processes of culture formation, maintenance, and change. Katriel's ethnographic examples provide a richly-textured account of Israeli cultural experience, illustrating the potential of a cultural analysis grounded in the study of ideologically-informed communicative practices.

The author addresses central issues in contemporary anthropology and human communication studies such as the identification of cultural communication patterns in ethnographic research, conceptualizations of the notions of culture and community, the rhetorical force of cultural communication forms, the role of ritualization in communication and social processes, the critical potential of ethnographic work, and the ethnographer's stance in studying one's own culture.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791406458
• ISBN13: 9780791406458
• Release Date: August 1991
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher