Week 7 and 8: Religion, Race, and Other Imponderables by Lucy Gardner
Dr. Don Seeman’s ethnography, One People, One Blood: Ethiopian-Israelis and the Return to Judaism, ponders race and religion within the broader political […]
Week 6 – Nico Morris-Fry
From Falasha to Freedom describes Shmuel Yilmah’s experience emigrating from Ethiopia to Israel during Operation Moses as a child. The first section […]
Week 5 – Memory, Aging: Maddie Novatt
Number Our Days by Barbara Myerhoff was created as both a short film (produced in 1976) and as an ethnographic book (published […]
Week 5: Memory, Aging (Julia Schwarz)
Barbara Myerhoff’s book, also portrayed through a short film Number Our Days, is a moving representation of her anthropological study on an […]