in: Anthropology and Cosmopolitanism: Vernacular, Feminist and Rooted Perspectives, Pnina Werbner, Editor, Berg Publishers , Oxford, pp.159-171, 2008
This chapter will dwell on the meaning of being a native anthropologist in Palestine-Israel in the twenty-first century. It will also explore the roles of the native anthropologist in conflicted Palestinian-Israeli society. Complex questions will be discussed – such as whether cosmopolitanism can really exist in such types of societies and whether anthropologists have a role in facilitating or maintaining cosmopolitanism– and the issues raised will be illustrated by case studies from fieldwork in Israeli and Palestinian societies.