Eyal Ben-Ari

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Eyal Ben-Ari is affiliated with the following schools: Bar-Ilan University, University of Haifa, Tel Aviv University, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, University of Chicago, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, University of Cambridge

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According to Wikipedia, Eyal Ben-Ari is a former professor of anthropology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem . His research interests include Japan as well as the Israeli Defence Forces. He served as the head of the university's Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace until January 2007, and also taught the Introduction to Anthropology course, making him well known to students.

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Mastering Soldiers : Conflict, Emotions, and the Enemy in an Israeli Military Unit (1998) (146)
: The Myth of the Military-Nation: Militarism, Gender and Education in Turkey (2007) (111)
Why Don't They Fight Each Other? Cultural Diversity and Operational Unity in Multinational Forces (1999) (92)
Reserve Soldiers as Transmigrants (2008) (79)
Cohesion during Military Operations (2005) (74)
On Acknowledgements in Ethnographies (1987) (66)
Masks and Soldiering: The Israeli Army and the Palestinian Uprising (1989) (64)
Body Projects in Japanese Childcare: Culture, Organization and Emotions in a Preschool (1996) (57)
Grasping Land: Space and Place in Contemporary Israeli Discourse and Experience (1998) (54)
Epilogue: A “Good” Military Death (2005) (47)
Blue Helmets and White Armor multi–nationalism and multi–culturalism among UN peacekeeping forces (2001) (45)
The military and militarism in Israeli society (1999) (44)
Imagined Masculinity: Body, Sexuality, and Family among Israeli Military Reserves (2009) (42)
Other-Worldly Soldiers? Ultra-Orthodox Views of Military Service in Contemporary Israel¹ (2003) (38)
In Israeli Development Towns: On A Mechanism Of Urban Transformation (1987) (38)
Matsuri: Festivals of a Japanese Town. (1993) (34)
the making of modern saints: manufactured charisma and the Abu‐Hatseiras of Israel (1992) (31)
Israeli snipers in the Al-Aqsa intifada: killing, humanity and lived experience (2005) (31)
Terror, Aid and Organization: The Haredi Disaster Victim Identification Teams (ZAKA) in Israel (2005) (30)
Fundamentalism's encounters with citizenship: the Haredim in Israel (2008) (29)
Popular Culture and the State in East and Southeast Asia (2014) (28)
Brothers and Others in Arms (2000) (28)
The extended case method: Four countries, four decades, four great transformations by Burawoy, Michael (2010) (27)
American Enterprise in Japan. (1992) (27)
A Bureaucrat in Every Japanese Kitchen? (1990) (26)
‘Hungry, Weary and Horny’: Joking and Jesting among Israel's Combat Reserves (2005) (24)
Fundamentalism and the masculine body: The case of Jewish Ultra-Orthodox men in Israel (2008) (23)
From Mothering to Othering: Organization, Culture, and Nap Time in a Japanese Day‐Care Center (1996) (22)
"Now We Show It All!" Normalization and the Management of Violence in Japan's Armed Forces (2002) (18)
The Rise of Special Operations Forces: Generalized Specialization, Boundary Spanning and Military Autonomy (2018) (17)
Book Review: A History of Force: Exploring the Worldwide Movement Against Habits of Coercion, Bloodshed and Mayhem (2005) (17)
'When darkness comes...' : Steps toward an anthropology of the night (2005) (16)
Changing Japanese Suburbia: A Study of Two Present-Day Localities. (1992) (16)
The Japanese in Singapore: the dynamics of an expatriate community (2005) (15)
The celebration of violence: a live-fire demonstration carried out by Japan's contemporary military (2003) (15)
Card Games and an Israeli Army Unit: An Interpretive Case Study (1991) (15)
Managing Diversity in Context (2013) (15)
Epilogue: Theoretical and Comparative Notes on Reserve Forces (2011) (14)
THE STUDY OF WAR AND THE MILITARY IN ISRAEL: AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION AND A REFLECTIVE CRITIQUE (2003) (14)
“A Knock on the Door”: Managing Death in the Israeli Defense Forces (2000) (14)
Posing, Posturing and Photographic Presences: A Rite of Passage in a Japanese Commuter Village (1991) (13)
Getting access to the field: Insider/outsider perspectives (2014) (13)
Docile bodies, pharmorgs and military knowledge : The regulation of sleep and night-time combat in the American army (2005) (13)
The Transformation of the World of War and Peace Support Operations (2009) (12)
Changing Japanese suburbia : a study of two present-day localities (1993) (12)
Review essay: The military and militarization in the United States (2004) (12)
Modernity and Charisma in Contemporary Israel: The Case of Baba Sali and Baba Baruch (1995) (11)
Cultural Industries and the State in East and Southeast Asia (2012) (10)
Tokyo: The Changing Profile of an Urban Giant (1992) (10)
Military, State, and Society in Israel : Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives (2018) (10)
Resonance and reverberation: Ritual and bureaucracy in the state funerals of the French Third Republic (1995) (10)
Popular Culture Co-productions and Collaborations in East and Southeast Asia (2013) (10)
Rethinking Contemporary Warfare: A Sociological View of the Al-Aqsa Intifada (2010) (10)
Formal Caring Alternatives: Kindergartens and Day‐Care Centers (2007) (9)
The Partition Motif in Contemporary Conflicts (2007) (9)
Upgraded Masculinity: A Gendered Analysis of the Debriefing in the Israeli Air Force (2018) (9)
Contemporary Peace Support Operations (2011) (9)
Uniqueness, typicality, and appraisal: A ‘village of the past’ in contemporary Japan* (1992) (8)
Contested identities and models of action in Japanese discourses of place-making (1995) (7)
Reserve Military Service: A Social Constructionist Perspective (2020) (7)
Hard choices: A sociological perspective on value incommensurability (1993) (7)
The Combat Soldier (2014) (7)
Armed Forces, Cyberspace, and Global Images (2016) (7)
Imposing Politics: Failed Attempts at Creating a Museum of `Co-Existence' in Jerusalem (1996) (6)
Transformation in ritual, transformation of ritual: audiences and rites in a Japanese commuter village (1991) (6)
Japan in Singapore: Cultural Occurrences and Cultural Flows (2000) (6)
Listening for Echoes Partition in Three Contexts (2006) (6)
Reconstructing obesity: the meaning and measures and the measure of meanings by McCollugh, B. Megan and Hardin A. Jessica (2014) (5)
FACING CHILD SOLDIERS, MORAL ISSUES, AND “REAL SOLDIERING”: ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON PROFESSIONAL ARMED FORCES* (2011) (5)
Like a Phoenix: The Renaissance of Sephardic/Mizrahi Identity in Israel in the 1970s and 1980s (2017) (5)
Forms of Quality? Documentation and Discipline in a Japanese Preschool (1994) (5)
‘Intelligent elegance’: Women in Japanese advertising (2010) (4)
Sake and "Space Time": Culture, Organization and Drinking in Japanese Firms (2003) (4)
Perspectives on Social Memory in Japan (2005) (4)
The Israel Reserve Law: The Duality of Reservists and Transformed Military Autonomy (2020) (4)
Japanese Childcare: An Interpretive Study of Culture and Organization (1996) (4)
Globalization, 'folk models' of the world order and national identity Japanese business expatriates in Singapore / (1996) (3)
Changing Japanese Suburbia (1991) (3)
Military Mission Formations and Hybrid Wars (2020) (3)
The real map : a demographic and geographic analysis of the population of the West Bank and Gaza Strip (1992) (3)
From a Sociology of Units to a Sociology of Combat Formations (2015) (3)
“Kill and Tell”: The Cultural Resonance and Reverberation of Creative Nonfiction on Special Operations Forces (2018) (3)
Family and Social Policy in Japan: State, standardisation and ‘normal’ children: an anthropological study of a preschool (2002) (3)
Kibbutz Under Fire: Back to the Days of Sickle and Bayonet (2017) (3)
Military Violence in Its Own Right: The Microsocial Foundations of Physical Military Violence in Noncombat Situations (2017) (3)
Book Review: Rubinstein, R. A. (2008). Peacekeeping under Fire: Culture and Intervention. Boulder, CO: Paradigm (2010) (2)
Listening for Echoes (2006) (2)
The Fox and the Jewel: Shared and Private Meanings in Contemporary Inari Worship:The Fox and the Jewel: Shared and Private Meanings in Contemporary Inari Worship. (2000) (2)
Sake and "spare time" : management and imbibement in Japanese business firms (1993) (2)
Chapter 11. Between Violence And Restraint: Human Rights, Humanitarian Considerations, And The Israeli Military In The Al-Aqsa Intifada (2009) (2)
Militarism, Martial Arts, and Aesthetics in Japan (2005) (2)
Getting Access to the Field (2014) (2)
Pygmies and Villagers, Ritual or Play? On the Place of Contrasting Modes of Metacommunication in Social Systems (1987) (2)
Israel’s Ground Forces in the Occupied Territories (2020) (2)
Contemporary Military Reserves (2022) (1)
A sports day in suburban Japan (2017) (1)
Area studies and the disciplines: Japanese Studies and anthropology in comparative perspective (2020) (1)
Introduction to the Armed Forces & Society Forum on Military Reserves in the “New Wars” (2021) (1)
Military and Society in Israel and Japan: Family Support, Mental Health and Public Support, (2020) (1)
Special Operations Forces in the 21st Century : Perspectives from the Social Sciences (2017) (1)
Militaries and the Multiple Negotiations of Intervention (2013) (1)
History and Theory in the Study of Cultural Collaboration (2013) (1)
Creativity and Innovation in the Media and Cultural Industries: Setting an Agenda for the Social and Human Sciences (2020) (1)
Mastering Soldiers (2022) (1)
Social Navigation and the Emergence of Leadership: Tactical Command in the IDF Ground Forces in the Second Lebanon War (2017) (1)
What is worthy of study about the military (2016) (1)
Samurai, violence, and state making: The development of the military and militarism in Japan (1997) (1)
Aesthetics in performance: formations of symbolic construction and experience – Edited by Angela Hobart & Bruce Kapferer (2007) (1)
Special operations forces (SOF) and social science : An introductory essay (2017) (1)
Japanese Encounters: The Structure and Dynamics of Cultural Frames (2017) (1)
Review essay: Samurai, violence, and state making: the development of the military and militarism in Japan (1997) (1)
Neither a Conscript Army nor an All-Volunteer Force: Emerging Recruiting Models (2021) (1)
Organizational entrepreneurship and special forces : The First Israeli Helicopter Squadron and the General Staff Reconnaissance Unit (Sayeret Matkal) (2017) (1)
Conflict in the Military World-View: An Ethnography of an Israeli Infantry Battalion. (1995) (1)
War, the military and militarization around the globe (2008) (1)
Japanese Diasporas: Unsung Pasts, Conflicting Presents, and Uncertain Futures (review) (2007) (1)
The Body, Emotions and Personal Firearms in the Military (2018) (1)
Book Review: Democratic Civil–Military Relations: Soldiering in the 21st Century (2015) (1)
Alfred W Crosby. 2002. Throwing fire. Projectile technology through history. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 206 pp. Hb.: £20.00. ISBN: 0 521 79158 8 (2004) (0)
Night special: What happens at night, stays at night (2013) (0)
What does social science research on the military “do”? (2021) (0)
From mothering to othering (2017) (0)
Introduction: social science, influence, and change in the military (2021) (0)
Dorinne K. Kondo: Crafting selves: power, gender and discourses of identity in a Japanese workplace. xiii, 346 pp. Chicago and London: Chicago University Press, 1990. $19.50. (1991) (0)
Eating to Become Japanese: Body, Habits and Organization (2013) (0)
What is worthy of viewing? (2021) (0)
The Combat Soldier (2014) (0)
One Sunny Day: A Child's Memories of Hiroshima. (1997) (0)
The Japanese self-defence forces and cinematic productions: resonance and reverberation in the normalization of organized state violence (2021) (0)
The Fox and the Jewel (Book Review). (2000) (0)
Posing, posturing and photographic presences (2017) (0)
Book Review: The Lebanese Army: A National Institution in a Divided Society (2011) (0)
Sake and spare time (2017) (0)
Yoshio Sugimoto and Ross E. Mouer (ed.): Constructs for understanding Japan , xiv, 396 pp. London: Regan Paul International, 1989. (1990) (0)
Japanese Social Organization. TAKIE SUGIYAMA LEBRA (1994) (0)
Challenges of Military Leadership in Contemporary Expeditionary Operations (2011) (0)
Theory Building in Research on the Military (2014) (0)
Lessons from East Asia for the development of the Middle East in the era of peace (1998) (0)
Transnational Similarities, Ethno-Theories and “Normal” Child Development: Early Childhood in Japan (2008) (0)
Discussing Empathy and Critique in the Ethnography of Things Military: A Conversation (2019) (0)
Introduction (2020) (0)
Japanese Visual Media (2021) (0)
Everyday Occupations: Experiencing Militarism in South Asia and the Middle East, by Kamala Visweswaran (2014) (0)
Maguire, Mark, Catarine Frois and Nils Zurawski (eds.) 2014. The anthropology of security: perspectives from the frontline of policing, counter-terrorism and border control. London: Pluto Press. ix + 209 pp. Pb.: £20.50. ISBN: 978-0-7453-3458-5. (2015) (0)
Anthropological intelligence: the deployment and neglect of American anthropology in the Second World War by Price, H. David (2010) (0)
Military, Society, and Violence through Popular Culture: (2019) (0)
Cardiac rehabilitation services: is there a case for it? (1991) (0)
DISPUTING ABOUT DAY-CARE: CARE-TAKING ROLES IN A JAPANESE DAY NURSERY (2016) (0)
Introduction : Mission formations and a new agenda for the study of military units in action 1 (2020) (0)
West Asia looks east: Asian studies in Israel (1991) (0)
From Paddy Field to Ski Slope: The Revitalisation of Tradition in Japanese Village Life. OKPYO MOON (1992) (0)
From leading combat units to leading combat formations (2020) (0)
Between Academic Ornament, External Expert and Suspect Ally: Lessons from Research on the Israeli Military (2018) (0)
Difficult folk? A political history of social anthropology by Mills, David (2010) (0)
Book Review: Tokyo: The Changing Profile of an Urban Giant (1992) (0)
AND A REFLECTIVE CRITIQUE (2003) (0)
The anthropology of organisations edited by Corsín Jiménez, Alberto (2009) (0)
The tribal imagination: civilization and the savage mind, by Fox, Robin (2012) (0)
List of Peer Reviewers (2007) (0)
12. Death And The Japanese Self-Defence Forces: Anticipation, Deployment And Cultural Scripts (2009) (0)
The Military Covenant, Contractual Relations, and Social Cohesion in Democracies: Estonia as an Exploratory Case Study (2022) (0)
Introduction – sociocultural frames (2017) (0)
Evens, Terry, Don Handelman and Christopher Roberts (eds.) 2016. Reflecting on reflexivity: the human condition as an ontological surprise. New York: Berghahn. xiv + 309 pp. Hb.: US$140.00/£100.00. ISBN: 978‐78238‐751‐0. (2018) (0)
Under construction: making homeland security at the local level by Fosher, Kerry B. (2011) (0)
Book Review: Transforming Command: The Pursuit of Mission Command in the U.S., British, and Israeli Armies (2013) (0)
Learning to 'Group': Play, Embodiment and Emotions (2013) (0)
Japan's Contested Memories: The ‘Memory Rifts’ in Historical Consciousness of World War II (2008) (0)
From Mothering to Othering: Organization, Culture and Naptime (2013) (0)
US Military Bases and Anti‐Military Organizing: An Ethnography of an Air Force Base in Ecuador by Erin Fitz‐Henry. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. 249 pp. (2016) (0)
Community action and community care in present-day Japan : A study of two communities (1984) (0)
Knight, John. 2003. Waiting for wolves in Japan. An anthropological study of people–wildlife relations. Oxford: Oxford University Press. xii + 296 pp. Hb.: £47.00. ISBN 0 19 925518 0 (2005) (0)
Beatrice Heuser and Eitan Shamir eds: Insurgencies and Counterinsurgencies: National Styles and Strategic Cultures. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2016. (2018) (0)
The Anime Boom in the United States: lessons for global creative industries (2019) (0)
Public events and the Japanese Self-Defense Forces (2017) (0)
Making military conscription count? Converting competencies between the civilian and military spheres in a neoliberal Estonia (2023) (0)
Cultural Intermediaries in East Asian Film Industries (2021) (0)
Simulated Dreams: Israeli Youth and Virtual Zionism (review) (2004) (0)
Tanoshikatta ne? Learning to be happy in Japanese preschools (2017) (0)
The gambaru complex (2017) (0)
Thanks to Reviewers (2009) (0)
Brian Moeran: Language and popular culture in Japan, ix, 196 pp. Manchester: Manchester University Press 1989. £29.95. (1990) (0)
The making of a human bomb: an ethnography of Palestinian resistance by Abufarha, Nasser (2011) (0)
Not precisely work (2017) (0)
Power, play and transformation (2017) (0)
Book Review: The World Within War: America's Combat Experience in World War II (2001) (0)
The Japanese house: material culture in the modern home, by Daniels, Inge (2012) (0)
Book Review: The New Citizen Armies: Israel’s Armed Forces in Comparative Perspective (2012) (0)
The Institutional Framework: Katsura Day-Care Center (2013) (0)
War, peace and human nature: the convergence of evolutionary and cultural views by Fry, Douglas P. (2014) (0)
Moss, Pamela and Michael J. Prince 2014. Weary warriors: power, knowledge, and the invisible wounds of soldiers. New York: Berghahn. xv + 270 pp. Hb.: US$95.00/£60.00. ISBN: 978-1-78238-346-8. (2016) (0)
Mutuality and the study of suicide: Psychological notions on military suicides in Israeli courts (2019) (0)
Contested Childhood: Diversity and Change in Japanese Preschools . By Susan D. Holloway. New York: Routledge, 2000. 272 pp. $95.00 (cloth); $26.95 (paper). (2003) (0)
Book Review: The Politics of Collective Violence (2006) (0)
A Note on the Gambaru Complex (2013) (0)
Coincident events of remembrance, coexisting spaces of memory (2017) (0)
Understanding the Impact of Social Research on the Military (2021) (0)
Anthropology of the Military (2021) (0)

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