The Desert Experience in Israel: Communities, Arts, Science, and Education in the Negev

by A. Paul Hare (Editor), Gideon M. Kressel (Editor)

Overview

The Desert Experience in Israel shares the responses of settlers, artists, poets, scientists, and educators who lived near the Blaustein Institute in the Negev Desert of Israel as they answer the question, 'What difference has living in the desert year round made in your work?' The book begins with a reprint of David Ben-Gurion's call for settlement and science in the desert. This is followed by an account of life in early kibbutzim, a discussion of the meaning of the term 'desert,' accounts of religion in the desert, and the relationship of the desert experience to art, theatre, literature, poetry, sculpture, and the use of color categories by the Bedouin. Accounts of research on solar energy, fossil fuel, water, microalgae, runoff agriculture, fish, and architecture are followed by desert-related activities in the high school, field school, and research institute.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761848417
Publisher:	University Press of America
Publication date:	09/29/2009
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	220
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

A. Paul Hare is an emeritus professor of sociology and Gideon M. Kressel is a professor of anthropology. Both are members of the Blaustein Institute for Desert Research, Midreshet, Israel. In addition to the editors, there are thirty-one contributors to this volume.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 1. The Desert Experience
Part 3 Part 1: Communities in the Desert
Chapter 4 2. A Call for Desert Communities and Science
Chapter 5 3. The First Days at Kibbutz Revivim
Chapter 6 4. The Pioneer at Kibbitz Sde Boqer
Part 7 Part II: What is a Desert?
Chapter 8 5. Midbar, Shmama, and Garbage Can
Chapter 9 6. The Conquest of the Desert and the Settlement Ethos
Chapter 10 7. The Perception of the Four Winds
Part 11 Part III: Inspiration
Chapter 12 8. Religion and the Desert
Chapter 13 9. The Arts
Part 14 Photographs
Part 15 Angels in the Desert - A visit with Binah Kahana by Gretel Rieber, Translated from the German by Wolfgang Motzafi-Haller
Part 16 Theater
Part 17 Literature
Part 18 Sculpture
Part 19 Sculpture
Part 20 Poetry
Part 21 Poetry
Part 22 Bedouin Poetry
Chapter 23 10. Linguistic and Ethnographic Observations on the Color Categories of the Negev Bedouin
Part 24 Part IV: Research
Chapter 25 11. Founding of the Institute for Desert Research
Chapter 26 12. Desert Research
Part 27 Solar Power Research
Part 28 Solar Surgery
Part 29 Fossil Water
Part 30 Microalgae
Part 31 Runoff Agriculture
Part 32 Fish
Part 33 Desert Architecture
Part 34 Apology for Architecture, or The Planner's Craft
Part 35 Part V: Education and Scholarship
Chapter 36 13. Environmental High School
Chapter 37 14. Field School
Chapter 38 15. Ben-Gurion Research and Heritage Institutes
Chapter 39 References
Chapter 40 Name Index
Chapter 41 Subject Index
Chapter 42 About the Contributors