Possession and Dispossession: Performing Jewish Ethnography in Jerusalem - Hardcover

by Lea Mauas (Editor), Michelle Macqueen (Editor), Diego Rotman (Editor)

The book includes articles,
documentation and a catalog of the Ethnographic Department of the Museum
of the Contemporary. It is the fruit of a long-term project carried out
at the Mamuta Art and Research Center and curated by the Sala-Manca
Group. It contains articles by Yoram Bilu, Rachel Elior, Freddie Rokem
and Diego Rotman on the Dybbuk; by Galit Hasan-Rokem and Daphna
Ben-Shaul on Sukkot, and on the Eternal Sukkah project; by Shalom Sabar
on electric Shabbat candles, and by Lea Mauas and Diego Rotman on
different art projects. The book also includes documentation of artworks
and a project by Itamar Mendes-Flohr, Yeshaiahu Rabinowtz, Ktura Manor,
Hannan Abu Huseein, Reuven Zehavi, Sala-Manca, Samuel Rotman, Shira
Borer, Nir Yahalom, Chen Cohen, Pessi Komar, Adi Kaplan, and Shahar
Carmel, among others.

Ethnography meets contemporary art - a project of the Museum of the Contemporary, Jerusalem