PUBLICATIONS

2018
Limor Meoded Danon. 2018. Comparing Contemporary Medical Treatment Practices Aimed At Intersex/Dsd Bodies In Israel And Germany.. Sociol Health Illn. doi:10.1111/1467-9566.12812.
Recently, new laws and medical guidelines in many countries have prohibited early genital surgeries and irreversible medical treatment for intersexed babies. Following the passing of the German law that allows parents to register intersexed babies with no sex/gender, and after the establishment of new medical guidelines for intersexed patients in Israel, this study aims to examine the current medical policies regarding intersexed bodies at DSD centres and hospitals in Israel and Germany. How, if at all, have they changed the previous medical guidelines? This is a narrative study that includes 62 in-depth interviews with medical professionals, parents and intersexed people from Germany and Israel. Three main controversial themes are examined, including the situated diagnostic medical gaze, the surgical practices for normalising intersexed bodies and the concealment of intersexed bodies. I find that in Israeli hospitals, early irreversible surgeries for 'ambiguous genitals' and the removal of internal sex organs are taking place frequently, whereas in Germany, the three DSD centres examined offer psychological counselling for parents instead of early surgeries for their babies. While in Israel concealment practices are embodied in the medical policy, the DSD centres in Germany encourage openness and peer group support. \copyright 2018 Foundation for the Sociology of Health & Illness.
Moshe Blidstein. 2018. Demons And Pollution In The Ancient Mediterranean: Interactions And Relationships. In Purity And Purification In The Ancient Greek World. Texts, Rituals, And Norms, Pp. 299-314. Paris: Boccard.
Nadeem Karkabi. 2018. Electro-Dabke: Performing Cosmopolitan Nationalism And Borderless Humanity. Public Culture, 30, 1, Pp. 173-196. doi:10.1215/08992363-4189215.
There have been recent advances in the phonological reconstruction of the South-Central (“Kuki}-Chin”) branch of Trans-Himalayan (Tibeto-Burman), in particular by VanBik (2009). However, the Northwestern (“Old} Kuki”) subgroup, generally considered to be conservative, is not represented in this work as reliable data have not been available. The present study provides a comprehensive documentation of the historical phonology of one Northwestern language, Monsang. The unexpected finding is that Monsang cannot be considered conservative in its phonological development. A large number of sound changes have occurred across all phonological domains. The majority of sound changes are mergers, and with small exceptions, no unusual sound changes are found. As a result, the diachronic development of Monsang can be considered a case of reduction in phonological complexity.
Moshe Blidstein. 2018. Loosing Vows And Oaths In The Roman Empire And Beyond: Authority And Interpretation. Archiv Für Religionsgeschichte, 20, 1, Pp. 275-303. doi:10.1515/arege-2018-0016.
Assaf Nativ. 2018. On The Object Of Archaeology. Ard, 25, 01, Pp. 1-21. doi:10.1017/S1380203818000016.
The paper ponders the object of archaeology, called here ‘the archaeological’. It argues that the existence of such an object is a necessary premise of the field and that ultimately it is on this object that the validity of all claims and arguments must rest. The paper suggests that the archaeological be conceived as a cultural phenomenon that consists in being disengaged from the social, an understanding that positions archaeology as a counterpart to the social sciences and the humanities, rather than a member in the same milieu. The first part of the paper focuses on the position of the archaeological with reference to the concepts of ‘Nature’ and ‘Culture’, which eventually leads us to a confrontation between archaeological statics and the dynamics of the world. Efforts to justify and understand archaeological statics consequently lead to the recognition of a constitutive distinction between buried and non-buried conditions, upon which the differentiation of the archaeological from the social is established.
Evelyn Runge. 2018. Simon Lindgren: Digital Media & Society. Rezensionen:kommunikation:medien. http://www.rkm-journal.de/archives/21440.
Moshe Blidstein. 2018. Swearing By The Book: Oaths And The Rise Of Scripture In The Roman Empire. Asdiwal: Revue Genevoise D'anthropologie Et D'histoire Des Religions, 12, Pp. 53-72.
Jonathan Brack. 2018. Theologies Of Auspicious Kingship: The Islamization Of Chinggisid Sacral Kingship In The Islamic World. Comp Stud Soc Hist, 60, 4, Pp. 1143-1171. doi:10.1017/S0010417518000415.

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