Moebius Anthropology

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