From Abraham to America: A History of Jewish Circumcision
From Abraham to America: A History of Jewish Circumcision is a comprehensive overview of Jewish circumcision throughout history. Beginning with Genesis, the book traces paradoxes and tensions in the biblical and Jewish rite as seen both within Judaism and from the...
A Cultural History of Jewish Dress
A Cultural History of Jewish Dress (2013) is the first comprehensive account of how Jews from Ancient Israel to today dressed to communicate tensions in their religious and ethnic identities, gender, devotion, and relationships with the wider society. This lively work...
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Masculinity, Motherhood, and Mockery: Psychoanalyzing Culture and the Iatmul Naven Rite in New Guinea
Masculinity, Motherhood, and Mockery (2001) analyzes the relationship between masculinity and motherhood in an Eastern Iatmul village along the Sepik River in Papua New Guinea. It focuses on a metaphorical dialogue between two contrary images of the body, called by...