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Membership Number: FCA2501
Membership Type: Full Fellowship
Division: Social Sciences (Related: Humanities)
Corresponding Email: don.handelman@gmail.com & don.handelman@mail.huji.ac.il
Homepage(s): https://en.sociology.huji.ac.il/people/don-handelman
https://academy.ac.il/Index2/Entry.aspx?nodeId=809&entryId=18329
Present and Previous Positions
2004 (Fall) Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin
2001-2002 Senior Fellow, Collegium Budapest: Institute For Advanced Study
1999-2000 Olof H. Palme Visiting Professor of the Swedish Research Council in the Humanities and Social Sciences
1999 (Winter) Fellow, Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, Jerusalem [member, study group on, Narratives of Ritual: Reconstruction in Religious Studies]
1998 (Fall) Fellow, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS)
1998 (Spring) Fellow, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS)
1996 (Oct) Distinguished Scholar, James Cook University, Australia
1996 (Feb) Visiting Senior Research Fellow, International Centre for Contemporary Cultural Research,University of Manchester
1994 (Fall) Fellow, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS)
1991 (Fall) Academy of Finland Visiting Professor, University of Helsinki
1988-1989 Fellow, Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, Jerusalem [member,Study Group on Enigmatic Modes of Culture]
1987-1988 Fellow, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS) [member, working-group on Comparative Studies of Ritual]
1978 (Sept) Distinguished Visiting Scholar, University of Adelaide, Australia
1978 (Aug) Research Fellow, Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), Memorial University of Newfoundland
1977-1978 Mellon Fellow, University of Pittsburgh
1973-1974 Research Fellow, Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), Memorial University of Newfoundland
1971 Canada Council Doctoral Fellow
1969 - 1970 Research Fellow, University of Manchester
POSITIONS
2006 (April-May) - Visiting Professor, University of Pretoria
2005 - Sarah Allen Shaine Professor Emeritus
1998 -2005 Sarah Allen Shaine Professor of Anthropology &
Sociology, The Hebrew University
1987 -2005 Professor, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1982-1983 Visiting Professor, University of Minnesota
1979-1987 Associate Professor, The Hebrew University
1975-1979 Senior Lecturer, The Hebrew University
1972-1975 Lecturer, The Hebrew University
1971-1972 Lecturer, Tel-Aviv University
Fields of Scholarship and Research Interests
Ph.D. in Social Anthropology, University of Manchester (UK)
Sociology and Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology
Honors, Awards and Other Membership
Elected to the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities (1997)
Selected Publications
2021 Moebius Anthropology: Essays on the Forming of Form.
(Edited by Jackie Feldman & Matan Shapiro). New York:
Berghahn Books.
2016 [Co-editors, T.M.S. Evens and Christopher Roberts] Reflecting on
Reflexivity: The Human Condition as an Ontological Surprise. New
York: Berghahn Books. (paperback edition 2018)
2014 One God, Two Goddesses, Three Studies of South Indian
Cosmology. Leiden: Brill.
2011 [Senior editor, Galina Lindquist] Religion, Politics, and
Globalization: Anthropological Approaches. New York: Berghahn
Books. (Paperback edition, 2012).
2006 [Co-editor, T.M.S. Evens] The Manchester School: Practice and
Ethnographic Praxis in Anthropology. New York: Berghahn Books.
2005 [Co-editor, T.M.S. Evens] The Manchester School: Practice and
Ethnographic Praxis in Anthropology. Special Issue of Social Analysis,
49, no. 3, pp. 1-284.
2005 [Co-editor, Galina Lindquist] Ritual in its Own Right: Exploring the
Dynamics of Transformation. New York: Berghahn Books.
2004 [Co-editor, Galina Lindquist] Ritual in its Own Right: Exploring the
Dynamics of Transformation. Special Issue of Social Analysis, 48,
no. 2, pp. 1-224.
2004 [Co-author, David Shulman] Siva in the Forest of Pines: An Essay on
Sorcery and Self-Knowledge. Delhi: Oxford University Press.
2004 Nationalism and the Israeli State: Bureaucratic Logic in Public Events.
Oxford and New York: Berg Publishers (Republished by Routledge,
2020).
2001 [Co-editor, Galina Lindquist] Playful Power and Ludic Spaces: Studies
in Games of Life. Special Issue of, Focaal: European Journal of
Anthropology, No. 34, pp. 7-156.
1998 Models and Mirrors (2nd Edition). New York and Oxford: Berghahn
Books.
1997 [Co-author, David Shulman] God Inside Out: Siva's Game of Dice.
New York: Oxford University Press.
1996 [Co-editor, Gideon Kressel] Israeli Scholars/Indian Themes.
Golden Jubilee Special Issue of the Eastern Anthropologist, Vol. 49,
no. 3-4, pp. 229-441.
1990 Models and Mirrors: Towards an Anthropology of Public Events.
Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press (Review
article of Models and Mirrors in Semiotica 105 [1995] 331-341)
[pp. 191-201 reprinted in, Israeli Judaism: The Sociology of
Religion in Israel (Studies of Israeli Society, Vol. 7), edited by
S. Deshen, C. Liebman & M. Shokeid. New Brunswick, NJ:
Transaction Publishers, 1995, pp. 75-85; and pp. 191-223
reprinted in, Introduction to Anthropology, edited by Matat Adar-Bunis.
Ramat-Aviv: The Open University of Israel, 1998 & 2007]
1981 [Co-editor, Jeff Collman] Administrative Frameworks and Clients.
Special Issue of Social Analysis, No. 9, pp. 5-120.
1978 [Co-author, Elliott Leyton] Bureaucracy and World View: Studies
in the Logic of Official Interpretation. [Newfoundland Social and
Economic Studies No. 22]. St. John's: Memorial University of
Newfoundland.
1977 Work and Play Among the Aged: Interaction, Replication and
Emergence in a Jerusalem Setting. Assen: Van Gorcum.
1975 [with Shlomo Deshen] The Social Anthropology of Israel.
Tel-Aviv: Institute for Social Research, Tel-Aviv University.
2004 Nationalism and the Israeli State: Bureaucratic Logic in Public Events.
Oxford and New York: Berg Publishers (Republished by Routledge,
2020).
2001 [Co-editor, Galina Lindquist] Playful Power and Ludic Spaces: Studies
in Games of Life. Special Issue of, Focaal: European Journal of
Anthropology, No. 34, pp. 7-156.
1998 Models and Mirrors (2nd Edition). New York and Oxford: Berghahn
Books.
1997 [Co-author, David Shulman] God Inside Out: Siva's Game of Dice.
New York: Oxford University Press.
1996 [Co-editor, Gideon Kressel] Israeli Scholars/Indian Themes.
Golden Jubilee Special Issue of the Eastern Anthropologist, Vol. 49,
no. 3-4, pp. 229-441.
1990 Models and Mirrors: Towards an Anthropology of Public Events.
Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press (Review
article of Models and Mirrors in Semiotica 105 [1995] 331-341)
[pp. 191-201 reprinted in, Israeli Judaism: The Sociology of
Religion in Israel (Studies of Israeli Society, Vol. 7), edited by
S. Deshen, C. Liebman & M. Shokeid. New Brunswick, NJ:
Transaction Publishers, 1995, pp. 75-85; and pp. 191-223
reprinted in, Introduction to Anthropology, edited by Matat Adar-Bunis.
Ramat-Aviv: The Open University of Israel, 1998 & 2007]
1981 [Co-editor, Jeff Collman] Administrative Frameworks and Clients.
Special Issue of Social Analysis, No. 9, pp. 5-120.
1978 [Co-author, Elliott Leyton] Bureaucracy and World View: Studies
in the Logic of Official Interpretation. [Newfoundland Social and
Economic Studies No. 22]. St. John's: Memorial University of
Newfoundland.
1977 Work and Play Among the Aged: Interaction, Replication and
Emergence in a Jerusalem Setting. Assen: Van Gorcum.
1975 [with Shlomo Deshen] The Social Anthropology of Israel.
Tel-Aviv: Institute for Social Research, Tel-Aviv University.
Other Information
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