Toward an Anthropology of Nation Building and Unbuilding in IsraelToward an Anthropology of Nation Building and Unbuilding in Israel presents twenty two original essays offering a critical survey of the anthropology of Israel inspired by Alex Weingrod, emeritus professor and pioneering scholar of Israeli anthropology. In the late 1950s Weingrods groundbreaking ethnographic research of Israels underpopulated south complicated the dominant social science discourse and government policy of the day by focusing on the