War bodies, hedonist bodies: Dialectics of the collective and the individual in Israeli society

American Ethnologist

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 813-832

  Weiss, Meira ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Body politic; Collectivism; Embodiment; Individualism; Israeli society; Social narratives

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031320381     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/ae.1997.24.4.813     Document Type: Article

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