The 2010 Israeli Democracy Index raised a number of serious questions regarding the status and strength of Israeli democracy. We believe it is an appropriate topic to kick off our Forum, which presents essays representing a variety of points of view by eminent Israeli scholars.
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The Sibirica Editorial Team
This second issue of volume 7 marks the completion of three volumes of Sibirica under the current editorship and with our publisher, Berghahn Books. We have been working to improve the content and delivery of the journal, organizing several issues around special themes, often as the result of interdisciplinary conferences related to the region. Our partnership with Berghahn has been great from the start and is only gaining strength. They have been expanding the electronic infrastructure for web access to subscribers, and Sibirica is accessible through Ingenta via links on Berghahn’s own website. We are in the process of digitizing all the back issues of Sibirica, all the way to its first incarnation as photocopied typescripts in the 1980s. This will give subscribers and others easy access to important scholarly material on Siberian studies.
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Past and Present
Matthew P. Romaniello
more familiar than different. The strength of this journal is to publish work that appeals to a broad audience from different disciplines sharing a common project. I look forward to seeing new submissions that address this challenge in new and unique
Sensory Perception of Rock Art in East Siberia and the Far East
Soviet Archeological “Discoveries” and Indigenous Evenkis
Donatas Brandišauskas
Everyone who had ever had a chance to be in places outlined in the monograph knows, what kind of strength, dedication and desire to overcome one's limitations a person needs just to see these monuments [rock art] since the location of them often are
Roads versus Rivers
Two Systems of Spatial Structuring in Northern Russia and Their Effects on Local Inhabitants
Kirill V. Istomin
European time zone and to move the time zone border to somewhere between Salekhard and Nadym. This shows that the roads as the space-structuring factor are gaining strength and even attain some degree of political influence. What is more important, they
Drawing Stereotypes
Europe and East Asia in Russian Political Caricature, 1900–1905
Zachary Hoffman
Britain's John Bull strikes a harsher image, however. He wears an evil smile, and though he has a large belly, we are told that his rotund chest does not contain a heart. Moreover, he “perpetually suffocates” weaker nations to show his strength. 27 Among
The Concept of the “Field” in Early Soviet Ethnography
A Northern Perspective
Dmitry V. Arzyutov and Sergei A. Kan
gained any strength, the discourse of the discipline remained stifled by those limitations for years—in many respects this explains its awkwardness. For some it was fear and for the others it was an obedient existence. The triumph of field ethnography at
Introduction
On the Usefulness of Boundary Re-work
Francisco Martínez
executive committee (see D. O. Martínez 2016 ) rather mirrors their strength in the last decades, inspiring other schools instead of suppressing them. Still, the negotiation of disciplinary designations and histories is open and the exercise of creating
The ‘Frame’ at Adab
American Archaeological Misbehaviour in Late Ottoman Iraq (1899–1905)
Jameel Haque
via the actions of the vali or of Osman Hamdi Bey and Haider Bey? That they could intervene demonstrates the relative strength of the Ottoman state, particularly as it could project power into its periphery and against Americans. Additionally, as I
Women's Uprising in Poland
Embodied Claims between the Nation and Europe
Jennifer Ramme
our tradition and culture, with all this we were raised with, what has built the strength of our nation, in the strength of the family’ ( Duda 2015 ). In recent Polish politics the female body marks the territory on which the nation's very survival