Framing sukkot [electronic resource] : tradition and transformation in Jewish vernacular architecture

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서명/저자사항	Framing sukkot [electronic resource]: tradition and transformation in Jewish vernacular architecture / Gabrielle Anna Berlinger.
개인저자	Berlinger, Gabrielle A., author.
발행사항	Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, [2017].
발행예정일자	1710
형태사항	1 online resource.
총서사항	Material vernaculars
기타형태 저록	Print version: Berlinger, Gabrielle A. Framing sukkot. Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2017] 9780253031815
ISBN	9780253031839 0253031834 9780253031815 0253031818
서지주기	Includes bibliographical references and index.
내용주기	Translating text: Sukkot in Bloomington, Indiana -- Shchunat Hatikva, Tel Aviv: a geography of difference -- Within Shchunat Hatikva: values and spaces -- Sukkot in Shchunat Hatikva -- Sukkot in Jaffa and Jerusalem -- The right to house and home -- Transcending architecture: Sukkot in Brooklyn, New York -- Materials chart and Sukkot floor plans.
요약	"The sukkah, the symbolic ritual home built during the annual Jewish holiday of Sukkot, commemorates the temporary structures that sheltered the Israelites as they journeyed across the desert after the exodus from Egypt. Despite the simple Biblical prescription for its design, the remarkable variety of creative expression in the construction, decoration, and use of the sukkah, in both times of peace and national upheaval, reveals the cultural traditions, political convictions, philosophical ideals, and individual aspirations that the sukkah communicates for its builders and users today. In this ethnography of contemporary Sukkot observance, Gabrielle Anna Berlinger examines the powerful role of ritual and vernacular architecture in the formation of self and society in three sharply contrasting Jewish communities: Bloomington, Indiana; South Tel Aviv, Israel; and Brooklyn, New York. Through vivid description and in-depth interviews, she demonstrates how constructing and decorating sukkah and performing the weeklong holiday's rituals of hospitality provide unique circumstances for creative expression, social interaction, and political struggle. Through an exploration of the intersections between the rituals of Sukkot and contemporary issues, such as the global Occupy movement, Berlinger finds that the sukkah becomes a tangible expression of the need for housing and economic justice, as well as a symbol of the longing for home"--
해제	Provided by publisher.
일반주제명	Sukkah --Buildings, structures, etc. RELIGION / Judaism / General SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
분류기호(DDC)	296.433
언어	영어
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