Don Handelman is Sarah Allen Shaine Professor of Anthropology & Sociology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Manchester in 1971. He has been a Fellow of the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Study, the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Collegium Budapest: Institute for Advanced Study, and the Institute for Advanced Study at The Hebrew University, and the Olof Palme Visiting Professor of the Swedish Social Science Research Council. His field research has been in the Great Basin, Newfoundland, Israel, and Andhra Pradesh. He has written extensively on ritual, play, expressive culture, and bureaucratic logic and the modern state, and is the author of Models and Mirrors: Towards an Anthropology of Public Events, Berghahn Books, 1998; Nationalism and the Israeli State: Bureaucratic Logic in Public Events, 2004; and with David Shulman is the coauthor of God Inside Out: Siva's Game of Dice (1997) and Siva in the Forest of Pines: An Essay on Sorcery and Self Knowledge (2004).

List of Figures

Preface to the Second Edition: Theorizing Through Models and Mirrors

Acknowledgements

Part I: Introduction

Chapter 1. Premises and Prepossessions
Chapter 2. Models and Mirrors
Chapter 3. Precariousness in Play

Part II: Proto-Events

Chapter 4. The Donkey Game
Chapter 5. Banana Time

Part III: Public Events

Chapter 6. The Palio of Siena
Chapter 7. Christmas Mumming in Newfoundland

Chapter 8. Holiday Celebrations in Israeli Kindergartens

(Co-author, Lea Shamgar-Handelman)

Chapter 9. State Ceremonies of Israel - Remembrance Day and Independence Day
(Co-author, Elihu Katz)

Chapter 10. Symbolic Types - Clowns

Epilogue: Towards Media Events

Notes

Bibliography

Index