Serendipity in Anthropological Research

Haim Hazan is Professor of Social Anthropology at Tel Aviv University, Israel Esther Hertzog is Associate Professor and Head of Anthropology at Beit Berl Academic College, Israel

Introduction; I: Navigation; 1: Errancy in Ethnography and Theory; 2: The Growth of a Conception; 3: Seductive Communities; II: Mirage; 4: Israeli Soldiers, Japanese Children; 5: Privileged and Volatile Nomadism; 6: Becoming a Triple Stranger; 7: Some Cautionary Tales from an Anthropological Romance with Jews from Libya; 8: Moving Fieldwork; III: The Journey; 9: Spiritual Travels, Social Knowledge; 10: Flying Witches, Embodied Memories, and the Wanderings of an Anthropologist; 11: The Anthropologist as a Nomad in Dangerous Fields and the Emergence of Cultural Criminology; 12: The Straw in Anthropologists' Boots; IV: Wandering; 13: The Cosmopolitan Movement of the Global Guest; 14: Social Science under Siege; 15: The Suspicious Anthropologist; V: Oases; 16: The Significance of Colours in Pastoral Bedouin Society; 17: The Structure of Bedouin Society in the Negev; 18: Bones of Contention; 19: Through the Kaleidoscope