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Professor Gideon Aran
Dept. of Sociology & Anthropology
Hebrew University
Jerusalem
Israel 91905Email: gideon.aran@mail.huji.ac.il
Phone: 972-2-5883331 (Office)
972-2-5345801 (Home)
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Author Archives: Gideon Aran
Notes on Haredi Physicality – The hair
It is a commonplace in anthropological literature that hair on the head and face is an effective symbolic medium for expressing identity and changes in identity, especially because it is immediately noticeable and easy to manipulate. Hair is a familiar … Continue reading
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Gideon Aran – Sitting Posture, Native Israeliness and Ultra-Orthodoxy
American readers of a certain age will no doubt have come across this phenomenon at the time of the ‘flower children’, and it still may be possible to find it in enclaves of 1960s sub-culture, or among New Age holdouts. … Continue reading
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Tagged Ethnography of a Disappearing, flower children, Gideon Aran, Jewish Phenomenon, Native Israeliness, Sitting Posture, Ultra-Orthodoxy
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