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Article: Comforting the Occupation. Work, Education, and Political Activism of Palestinian Families in a Refugee Camp.(Book Review)
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- Journal of Comparative Family Studies
- Article date:
- January 1, 2006
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Rosenfield, Maya. COMFORTING THE OCCUPATION. WORK, EDUCATION, AND POLITICAL ACTIVISM OF PALESTINIAN FAMILIES IN A REFUGEE CAMP. Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA 2004. Soft cover, ISBN 0-8047-4987-6.
Confronting the Occupation is a thoughtful and interesting volume. The author, anthropologist Maya Rosenfeld, describes and analyses the lives and world of Palestinian families in the Dheisheh refugee camp located near Bethlehem. Based on field observations and the close relationships she developed with members of this community, her work covers the period from 1992 well into the present Sharon Government. Rosenfeld owns her own political perspectives, and while ...