商品簡介
In an exploration of emotions associated with male friendship, Kaplan (Horowitz Institute on Society and Economy, Tel Aviv U.) argues that some emotions can only be experienced through a sense of loss, and that by entering the public discourse they transform into rituals of passionate commemoration, suggesting a dynamics of collective necrophilia. Drawing upon selected stories of friendship among Israeli men during childhood, school, recreational activities, the workplace, and the military, the text examines how friendship is constructed in concrete lived experience, first in everyday life and then in national spaces considered sacred. The interrelations between male fraternity and commemoration are shown to provide a crucial link between individual friendship and national solidarity, where nationalism is identified as a homosocial-based emotion of commemorative desire. Annotation c2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Danny Kaplan is a research fellow at the Horowitz Institute on Society and Economy at Tel Aviv University and teaches at Bar Ilan University and Tel Aviv-Yafo Academic College. He specializes in the anthropology of friendship, military masculinity, sexuality, and the sociology of emotions. He is the author of Brothers and Others in Arms: The Making of Love and War in Israeli Combat Units (Haworth Press 2003).
