Member
Don Handelman
  • don.handelman@gmail.com

FCAcad; Anthropologist; Sarah Allen Shaine Professor Emeritus of Hebrew University; Research Fellow of Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin; Member of Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities

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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 

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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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