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Smadar Lavie

Anthropology

#646

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#891

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Cultural Anthropology

#60

World Rank

#78

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Smadar Lavie's Degrees

PhD Anthropology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Anthropology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Anthropology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Smadar Lavie is a Mizrahi U.S.-Israeli anthropologist, author, and activist. She specializes in the anthropology of Egypt, Israel and Palestine, emphasizing issues of race, gender and religion. Lavie is a professor emerita of anthropology at the University of California, Davis, and a visiting scholar at the Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley. Lavie received her doctorate in anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley and spent nine years as assistant and associate professor of anthropology at the University of California, Davis. She authored The Poetics of Military Occupation , receiving the 1990 Honorable Mention of the Victor Turner Award for Ethnographic Writing, and Wrapped in the Flag of Israel: Mizrahi Single Mothers and Bureaucratic Torture receiving the 2015 Honorable Mention of the Association of Middle East Women's Studies Book Award Competition. Wrapped in the Flag of Israel's first edition was also one of the four finalists in the 2015 Clifford Geertz Book Award Competition of the Society for the Anthropology of Religion. She also co-edited Creativity/Anthropology and Displacement, Diaspora, and Geographies of Identity . Lavie won the American Studies Association's 2009 Gloria Anzaldúa Prize for her article, “Staying Put: Crossing the Palestine-Israel Border with Gloria Anzaldúa,” published in Anthropology and Humanism . In 2013, Smadar Lavie won the “Heart at East” Honor Plaque for lifetime service to Mizraḥi communities in Israel-Palestine.

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Smadar Lavie's Published Works

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Doing it right the first time: quality improvement and the contaminant blood culture (1997) (136)
Displacement, Diaspora, and Geographies of Identity (2012) (91)
The Poetics of Military Occupation: Mzeina Allegories of Bedouin Identity Under Isræli and Egyptian Rule (1990) (82)
Adhesion of the clay minerals montmorillonite, kaolinite, and attapulgite reduces respiration of Histoplasma capsulatum (1986) (55)
Between and among the boundaries of culture: Bridging text and lived experience in the third timespace (1996) (49)
Interactions between clay minerals and siderophores affect the respiration of Histoplasma capsulatum (1986) (29)
Wrapped in the Flag of Israel (2014) (26)
Mizrahi Feminism and the Question of Palestine (2011) (23)
INTRODUCTION: DISPLACEMENT, DIASPORA, AND GEOGRAPHIES OF IDENTITY (2012) (21)
Writing against identity politics: An essay on gender, race, and bureaucratic pain (2012) (13)
Notes on the fantastic journey of the Hajj, his anthropologist, and her American Passport (1993) (11)
Staying Put: Crossing the Israel–Palestine Border with Gloria Anzaldúa (2011) (10)
Blowups in the Borderzones: Third World Israeli Authors’ Gropings for Home (2012) (9)
Sinai for the Coffee Table: Birds, Bedouins and Desert Wanderlust (1988) (8)
Bedouin in Limbo: Egyptian and Israeli Development Policies in Southern Sinai (1984) (6)
The Use of Radioiodinated Latex Particles for in Vivo Studies of Phagocytosis (1967) (5)
When Leadership Becomes Allegory: Mzeina Sheikhs and the Experience of Military Occupation (1989) (4)
Academic Apartheid in Israel and the LillyWhite Feminism of the Upper Middle Class (2002) (3)
On the Progress of Affirmative Action and Cultural Rights for Marginalized Communities in Israel (2006) (3)
Transnational English Tyranny (2006) (2)
Gaza 2014 and Mizraḥi Feminism (2019) (2)
De/Racinated Transcendental Conversions: Witchcraft, Oracle and Magic among the Israeli Feminist Left Peace Camp (2010) (2)
Palestine to Ferguson, historicized: decolonizing US–Israeli settler dynamics: A shadow over Palestine: the imperial life of race in America (2017) (1)
Nocardia brasiliensis soft tissue infection in an immunocompromised host. (1992) (1)
The bedouin, the beatniks, and the redemptive fool (1991) (1)
Where is the Mizrahi–Palestinian border zone? Interrogating feminist transnationalism through the bounds of the lived (2011) (1)
The Knafo Chronicles (2012) (1)
Commentry: Lilly White Feminism and Academic Apartheid in Israel (2003) (1)
9. THE ONE WHO WRITE! US (2019) (0)
[Brain damage in patients resuscitated from cardiac arrest]. (1999) (0)
culture.and the contaminant blood Doing it right the first time: quality (2014) (0)
1. THE POETICS OF MILITARY OCCUPATION (2019) (0)
3. THE SHEIKH (2019) (0)
ISRAELI FEMINISM AND THE QUESTION OF PALESTINE (2015) (0)
Book Reviews (2004) (0)
2. BEDOUIN IN LIMBO, OR DEVELOPERS OBSERVED (2019) (0)
NOTE TO TRANSLITERATION (2019) (0)
7. “The One Who Writes Us”: Political Allegory and the Experience of Occupation among the Mzeina Bedouin (2018) (0)
10. WHEN IDENTITY BECOMES ALLEGORY (2019) (0)
Mediating Feminist Homes and Exiles: Gendering Racial Formations during the Al-Aqsa Intifada (2006) (0)
8. THE SYMBOLIC BATTLE COORDINATOR (2019) (0)
Mizrahi Feminism and the Question of Palestine: Two States or One? (2013) (0)
Israeli Anthropology and American Anthropology (2005) (0)
5. THE EX-SMUGGLER (2019) (0)
6. THE OLD WOMAN (2019) (0)
4. THE MADWOMAN (2019) (0)

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