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Desert in the promised land
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ISBN: 1503607607 9781503607606 9781503606234 9781503607590 1503606236 1503607593 Year: 2019 Publisher: Stanford, Calif. Stanford University Press

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At once an ecological phenomenon and a cultural construction, the desert has varied associations within Zionist and Israeli culture. In the Judaic textual tradition, it evokes exile and punishment, yet is also a site for origin myths, the divine presence, and sanctity. Secular Zionism developed its own spin on the duality of the desert as the romantic site of Jews' biblical roots that inspired the Hebrew culture, and as the barren land outside the Jewish settlements in Palestine, featuring them as an oasis of order and technological progress within a symbolic desert. Yael Zerubavel tells the story of the desert from the early twentieth century to the present, shedding light on romantic-mythical associations, settlement and security concerns, environmental sympathies, and the commodifying tourist gaze. Drawing on literary narratives, educational texts, newspaper articles, tourist materials, films, popular songs, posters, photographs, and cartoons, Zerubavel reveals the complexities and contradictions that mark Israeli society's semiotics of space in relation to the Middle East, and the central role of the "besieged island" trope in Israeli culture and politics.

Shiqmim I : studies concerning Chalcolithic societies in the Northern Negev Desert, Israel (1982-1984)
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ISBN: 0860544605 Year: 1987 Publisher: Oxford : BAR,

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At the edge : terminal pleistocene hunter-gatherers in the Negev and Sinai.
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ISBN: 0860544680 Year: 1987 Publisher: Oxford : BAR,


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Nabataean settlement and self-organized economy in the Central Negev : crisis and renewal
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ISBN: 9781407305431 1407305433 Year: 2010 Volume: 2054 Publisher: Oxford Archaeopress


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The Negev: the challenge of a desert
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ISBN: 0674606701 Year: 1971 Publisher: Cambridge (Mass.) Harvard University Press

The Archaeology of the Early Islamic Settlement in Palestine
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ISBN: 157506538X 9781575065380 1575060701 9781575060705 Year: 2021 Publisher: University Park, PA

A Bedouin century : education and development among the Negev tribes in the 20th century
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ISBN: 1571818324 178238748X Year: 2001 Publisher: New York : Berghahn Books,

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The Bedouin in the Negev region have undergone a remarkable change of life style in the course of the 20th century: within a few generations they changed from being nomads to an almost sedentary and highly educated population. The author, who is a Bedouin himself and has worked in the Israeli Ministry of Education and Culture as Superintendent of the Bedouin Educational Schools in the Negev for many years, offers the first in-depth study of the development of Bedouin society, using the educational system as his focus.


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Ceramics in transition: production and exchange of late Byzantine-early Islamic pottery in Southern Transjordan and the Negev
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ISBN: 1789692253 1789692245 Year: 2019 Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

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Ceramics in Transition focuses on the utilitarian ceramic traditions during the socio-political transition from the late Byzantine into the early Islamic Umayyad and 'Abbasid periods, c. 6th-9th centuries CE in southern Transjordan and the Negev. These regions belonged to the Byzantine province of Palaestina Tertia, before Islamic administrative reorganisation in the mid-7th century. Cooking ware and ceramic containers were investigated from five archaeological sites representing different socio-economic contexts, the Jabal Harûn monastery, the village of Khirbet edh-Dharih, the port city of 'Aqaba/Aila, the town of Elusa in the Negev, and the suburban farmstead of Abu Matar. The ceramics were typo-chronologically categorised and subjected to geochemical and micro-structural characterisation via X-ray fluorescence spectrometry (ED-XRF) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM-EDS) to geochemically 'fingerprint' the sampled ceramics and to identify production clusters, manufacturing techniques, ceramic distribution patterns, and material links between rural-urban communities as well as religious-secular communities. The ceramic data demonstrate economic wealth continuing into the early Islamic periods in the southern regions, ceramic exchange systems, specialized manufacture and inter-regional, long-distance ceramic transport. The potters who operated in the southern areas in the formative stages of the Islamic period reformulated their craft to follow new influences diffusing from the Islamic centres in the north.


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Dwelling in conflict : Negev landscapes and the boundaries of belonging
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ISBN: 9780804797603 0804797609 9780804798303 0804798303 9780804798327 080479832X Year: 2016 Publisher: Stanford, Calif. Stanford University Press

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Land disputes in Israel are most commonly described as stand-offs between distinct groups of Arabs and Jews. In Israel's southern region, the Negev, Jewish and Bedouin Arab citizens and governmental bodies contest access to land for farming, homes, and industry and struggle over the status of unrecognized Bedouin villages. "Natural," immutable divisions, both in space and between people, are too frequently assumed within these struggles. Dwelling in Conflict offers the first study of land conflict and environment based on extensive fieldwork within both Arab and Jewish settings. It explores planned towns for Jews and for Bedouin Arabs, unrecognized villages, and single-family farmsteads, as well as Knesset hearings, media coverage, and activist projects. Emily McKee sensitively portrays the impact that dividing lines—both physical and social—have on residents. She investigates the political charge of people's everyday interactions with their environments and the ways in which basic understandings of people and "their" landscapes drive political developments. While recognizing deep divisions, McKee also takes seriously the social projects that residents engage in to soften and challenge socio-environmental boundaries. Ultimately, Dwelling in Conflict highlights opportunities for boundary crossings, revealing both contemporary segregation and the possible mutability of these dividing lines in the future.

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