Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Notes on transliteration, translation and archives 6
3. Acknowledgments 7
4. Table of Contents 9
5. Introduction: The Field, the Ethnography and the Anthropologist 11
6. Chapter One: Conventional and Environmental Agriculture: The Modern, Anti Modern and Non Modern Landscapes 27
7. Chapter Two: From Europe to the Middle East: Blossoming the Desert, Cultivating the Land of Israel 83
8. Chapter Three: The State as a Plot: Who Owns the Land, Who Plans the Landscape 149
9. Conclusions: Writing the Ethnographic Text: The Power of Words 201
10. Notes 207
11. Works Cited 213
12. Index 223