Dilemmas of Attachment

Bård Helge Kårtveit, Ph.D.(2010), University of Oslo, is a Post Doctoral Researcher at The Department of Cultural Studies and Oriental Languages. He has published several articles in Palestine, with a special focus on migration and on Christian-Muslim relations among Palestinians.

“Kårtveit succeeds admirably in integrating the historical, political, and religious processes since Ottoman times. Well researched, this is a required read for anthropologists and Middle East scholars.”L.D. Loeb in CHOICE July 2015.“The author is commendably attentive to the nuances of individual stories and deftly links these to the wider context of a society subject to hostile occupation as well as to internal tensions between social change and the assertion of tradition as a defense against that change and the occupation.”Glenn Bowman in Journal of Palestine Studies 175, volume XLIV, Number 3 (Spring 2015), 63-64.“Kårtveits bok er betimelig i en tid da fremveksten av islamistiske bevegelser gjør at kristne og andre religiøse minoriteter i Midtøsten opplever økt press og usikkerhet. Boken er essensiell lesning for alle som er interessert i den arabisk-israelske konflikten generelt og minoriteter og migrasjon i Midtøsten spesielt.”Cathrine Thorleifsson in Norsk antropologisk tidsskrift / Norwegian Journal of Anthropology 03-04/2015, p. 310-311.

• AcknowledgementsPrefaceIntroduction: Palestinian Christians in the West BankCh. 1: Bethlehem between tradition and modernityCh. 2: Christian-Muslim relations: land, law and family protectionCh. 3: National identity, attachments and solidarityCh. 4: The Israeli occupation: a politics of paralysisCh. 5: Bethlehem emigration and diaspora relationsConclusion and epilogueAppendicesReferencesIndex