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On value and values in a West Bank settlement
Author(s) -
WEISS HADAS
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
american ethnologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.875
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1548-1425
pISSN - 0094-0496
DOI - 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2010.01290.x
Subject(s) - settlement (finance) , value (mathematics) , agency (philosophy) , sociology , pragmatism , ethnography , epistemology , positive economics , social science , economics , philosophy , anthropology , mathematics , statistics , finance , payment
In this article, I use value theory to interrogate values in the West Bank settlement of Beit‐El, particularly the coexistence of pragmatism with the valorization of self‐sacrifice. My aims are threefold: to make sense of West Bank settlement values specifically, and contemporary fundamentalism by extension, within the socioeconomic coordinates of the present moment; to illustrate the contribution of value theory to an ethnography of values; and to tease out from the case study some generalizations regarding the formal relations between value and values as they pertain to contemporary possibilities for and limitations on social agency.