- Smadar Lavie
Smadar Lavie is an
anthropologist andauthor . AMizrahi Jew born and raised inIsrael , she received her BA in Social Anthropology from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1980. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California-Berkeley in 1989 (Majors: Sociology and Social Anthropology; Minors: Medieval Islamic Civilization, Musicology) [http://www.geocities.com/smadarlavie/] . She is the Hubert H. Humphrey Distinguished Visiting Professor of International Studies atMacalester College . [http://www.macalester.edu/internationalstudies/faculty.html]Professor Lavie is a member of the
Mizrahi Democratic Rainbow Coalition , of [http://www.achoti.org.il/english.html Ahoti for Women in Israel] , and of other political, feminist and anti-racist organisations.Bibliography
* "The Poetics of Military Occupation: Mzeina Allegories of Bedouin Identity Under Israeli and Egyptian Rule", Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1991, ISBN 0-520-07552-8
* "Creativity/Anthropology " (Co-edited with Renato Rosaldo and Kirin Narayan), Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993, ISBN 0-801-49542-7
* "Displacement, Diaspora, and Geographies of Identity" (with Ted Swedenburg), Durham: Duke University Press, 1996, ISBN 0-8223-1720-6
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