Does Anthropology have Style: possibilities and limitations in the contemporary study of Material Culture: a public lecture by Tamar El Or (Hebrew University)

Does Anthropology have Style: possibilities and limitations in the contemporary study of Material Culture

Public lecture by Tamar El Or (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Four years ago, after a long career in the study of gender religion and culture, I stared on a new project in material culture. The object under research was the biblical sandal, a trope of Israeli style. My journey backward to F. Boas, and forward to B. Latour and E.Viveiros de. Castro offered challenging meetings along the route with the research (and researches) of objects, or things. My talk will try to roll the story of the sandals along the theoretical and methodological challenges, posed by contemporary material study.

Bio

Prof. Tamar El Or is an anthropologist at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Her academic interests lie at the intersection between gender, culture and knowledge. Lately she has been working on material culture in Israel and anthropology of Style. A first publication from the new project : " The Soul of the Biblical Sandal: On Anthropology and Style" was published in American Anthropologist. Sept. 2012

Among her publications:

Educated and Ignorant: On Ultra orthodox Women and their World. Boulder CO: Lynne Reinner Pub. 1994

Next Year I will Know More: Literacy and Identity among young orthodox women in Israel. Detroit: Wayne State University Press.2002.

Reserved Seats - Ethnicity gender and religion in contemporary Israel – was published in Hebrew (Am Oved. 2006). The English version is on her Web site with other publication - www.tamarelor.com