Don Handelman is the Sarah Allen Shaine Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Sociology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

“[This book offers a] perspective on an extraordinary scholar, one whose versatility and energy goes far beyond what anthropology has generally aspired to in the twentieth-century. This book is a taster not simply of a work of stunning theoretical breadth, offering profound heuristics for our discipline, but of the man who has refused to dis-intricate himself and his personal trajectory from its conceptual premises.” • Ethnos. Journal of Anthropology“This is scintillating – and an engaging and compelling book… It is an extraordinary comment on the versatility and energy of twentieth century socio-cultural anthropology.” • Marilyn Strathern, University of Cambridge“An ambitious retrospective of Don Handelman’s intellectual development… An invaluable resource for scholars of anthropology and ritual studies.” • Donna J. Young, University of Toronto Scarborough

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionMatan ShapiroPart I: Some Significant Formative InfluencesChapter 1. Henry Rupert, Washo ShamanChapter 2. Tracing Bureaucratic Logic through Surprise and AbductionPart II: Forming Form: Ritual and Bureaucratic LogicChapter 3. Why Ritual in Its Own Right? How So?Chapter 4. Bureaucratic LogicChapter 5. Bureaucratic Logic, Bureaucratic Aesthetics:​ The Opening Event of Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes Remembrance Day in IsraelPart III: Cosmological TrajectoriesChapter 6. Passages to Play: Paradox and ProcessChapter 7. Framing Hierarchically, Framing MoebiuslyChapter 8. Inter-gration and Intra-gration in CosmologyPart IV: Deleuzian IntersectionsChapter 9. Self-Exploders, Self-Sacrifice, and the Rhizomic Organization of TerrorismChapter 10. Thinking Moebiusly: Can We Learn about Ritual from Cinema with Mulholland Drive?Chapter 11. Folding and Enfolding Walls: Statist Imperatives and Bureaucratic Aesthetics in Divided JerusalemEpilogue: Forming Form, Folding Time (Toward Dynamics Through an Anthropology of Form)Index

Don Handelman is the Sarah Allen Shaine Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Sociology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

“[This book offers a] perspective on an extraordinary scholar, one whose versatility and energy goes far beyond what anthropology has generally aspired to in the twentieth-century. This book is a taster not simply of a work of stunning theoretical breadth, offering profound heuristics for our discipline, but of the man who has refused to dis-intricate himself and his personal trajectory from its conceptual premises.” • Ethnos. Journal of Anthropology“This is scintillating – and an engaging and compelling book… It is an extraordinary comment on the versatility and energy of twentieth century socio-cultural anthropology.” • Marilyn Strathern, University of Cambridge“An ambitious retrospective of Don Handelman’s intellectual development… An invaluable resource for scholars of anthropology and ritual studies.” • Donna J. Young, University of Toronto Scarborough

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionMatan ShapiroPart I: Some Significant Formative InfluencesChapter 1. Henry Rupert, Washo ShamanChapter 2. Tracing Bureaucratic Logic through Surprise and AbductionPart II: Forming Form: Ritual and Bureaucratic LogicChapter 3. Why Ritual in Its Own Right? How So?Chapter 4. Bureaucratic LogicChapter 5. Bureaucratic Logic, Bureaucratic Aesthetics:​ The Opening Event of Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes Remembrance Day in IsraelPart III: Cosmological TrajectoriesChapter 6. Passages to Play: Paradox and ProcessChapter 7. Framing Hierarchically, Framing MoebiuslyChapter 8. Inter-gration and Intra-gration in CosmologyPart IV: Deleuzian IntersectionsChapter 9. Self-Exploders, Self-Sacrifice, and the Rhizomic Organization of TerrorismChapter 10. Thinking Moebiusly: Can We Learn about Ritual from Cinema with Mulholland Drive?Chapter 11. Folding and Enfolding Walls: Statist Imperatives and Bureaucratic Aesthetics in Divided JerusalemEpilogue: Forming Form, Folding Time (Toward Dynamics Through an Anthropology of Form)Index

Don Handelman is the Sarah Allen Shaine Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Sociology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

“[This book offers a] perspective on an extraordinary scholar, one whose versatility and energy goes far beyond what anthropology has generally aspired to in the twentieth-century. This book is a taster not simply of a work of stunning theoretical breadth, offering profound heuristics for our discipline, but of the man who has refused to dis-intricate himself and his personal trajectory from its conceptual premises.” • Ethnos. Journal of Anthropology“This is scintillating – and an engaging and compelling book… It is an extraordinary comment on the versatility and energy of twentieth century socio-cultural anthropology.” • Marilyn Strathern, University of Cambridge“An ambitious retrospective of Don Handelman’s intellectual development… An invaluable resource for scholars of anthropology and ritual studies.” • Donna J. Young, University of Toronto Scarborough

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionMatan ShapiroPart I: Some Significant Formative InfluencesChapter 1. Henry Rupert, Washo ShamanChapter 2. Tracing Bureaucratic Logic through Surprise and AbductionPart II: Forming Form: Ritual and Bureaucratic LogicChapter 3. Why Ritual in Its Own Right? How So?Chapter 4. Bureaucratic LogicChapter 5. Bureaucratic Logic, Bureaucratic Aesthetics:​ The Opening Event of Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes Remembrance Day in IsraelPart III: Cosmological TrajectoriesChapter 6. Passages to Play: Paradox and ProcessChapter 7. Framing Hierarchically, Framing MoebiuslyChapter 8. Inter-gration and Intra-gration in CosmologyPart IV: Deleuzian IntersectionsChapter 9. Self-Exploders, Self-Sacrifice, and the Rhizomic Organization of TerrorismChapter 10. Thinking Moebiusly: Can We Learn about Ritual from Cinema with Mulholland Drive?Chapter 11. Folding and Enfolding Walls: Statist Imperatives and Bureaucratic Aesthetics in Divided JerusalemEpilogue: Forming Form, Folding Time (Toward Dynamics Through an Anthropology of Form)Index