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Danny Kaplan - The Men We Loved - 9781845451929 - V9781845451929
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The Men We Loved

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Description for The Men We Loved Hardcover. Follows selected stories of friendship ranging over early childhood, school, the workplace, and some unique war experiences. This book explores the symbolism of friendship in rituals for the fallen soldiers, the commemoration of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, and the national infatuation with recovering bodies of missing soldiers. Num Pages: 190 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ2; JMH; JWD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 176 x 16. Weight in Grams: 386.

Some semi-public, exclusive male settings, most noticeably in the military, encourage the production of intimacy and desire. Yet whereas in most instances this desire is displaced through humor and aggressive gestures, it becomes acknowledged and outright declared once associated with sites of heroic death. In his provocative study of interrelations between friendship in everyday life and national sentiments in Israel, the author follows selected stories of friendship ranging over early childhood, school, the workplace, and some unique war experiences. He explores the symbolism of friendship in rituals for the fallen soldiers, the commemoration of Prime Minister Yzhak Rabin, and ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
190
Condition
New
Number of Pages
190
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845451929
SKU
V9781845451929
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

About Danny Kaplan
Danny Kaplan is a research fellow at the Horowitz Institute on Society and Economy at Tel Aviv University and teaches at Bar Ilan University and Tel Aviv-Yafo Academic College. He specializes in the anthropology of friendship, military masculinity, sexuality, and the sociology of emotions. He is the author of Brothers and Others in Arms: The Making of Love and War ... Read more

Reviews for The Men We Loved
“Kaplan skillfully relates the personal and collective story of male friendship, and critically points to the metonymic link between narratives of combat fraternity and Zionism as a gendered project... Tales of combat fraternity constitute a mythological universe of re'ut that challenges the demise of the priave body as it breathes new life into the body politic... Kaplan puts forth the ... Read more

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