Dr S. (Shifra) Kisch
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Profile
Kisch 2008. http://dare.uva.nl/record/422875 AISSR website
Affiliation:
University of Amsterdam (UvA)
AISSR, Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research.
Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology
address:
Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Amsterdam
Nieuwe Achtergracht 166 1018WV Amsterdam
mailing adress:
Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Amsterdam
P.Box 15508 1001 NA AmsterdamKIsch 2007. http://dare.uva.nl/record/422879Publications
2012 . Al-Sayyid: A Sociolinguistic Sketch . in Zeshan, U. and C. de Vos (eds.) Endangered Sign Languages in Village Communities: Anthropological and Linguistic Insights. Sign Language Typology Series 4. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter & Ishara Press.
2012. Demarcating generations of signers in the dynamic sociolinguistic landscape of an shared sign-language: the case of the Al-Sayyid Bedouin. in Zeshan, U. and C. de Vos (eds.) Endangered Sign Languages in Village Communities: Anthropological and Linguistic Insights . Sign Language Typology Series 4. Berlin: Mouton d e Gruyter & Ishara Press.
2012. Privileged and Volatile Nomadism. In Hazan, Haim and Esther Hertzog (eds.) Serendipity in Anthropological Research : The Nomadic Turn . Farnham, UK: Ashgate Publishing.
2009. Essay Book Review of "Margalit Fox, Talking Hands: What Sign Language Reveals About the Mind". Sign Language & Linguistics 12:2, 203-210.
2009. Reproductive Encounters: Negev Bedouin Women's Lay Encounters at Childbirth in an Israeli Hospital . Anthropological Quarterly 82(3): 719-754.
2008. The Social Construction of Deafness in a Bedouin Community in the Negev . Medical Anthropology , 27(3):283-313.
2007. Disablement Gender and Deafhood among the Negev Arab-Bedouin. Disability Studies Quarterly 27(4).
2004. Negotiating (genetic) deafness in a Bedouin community. In J.V. Van Cleve (Ed.), Genetics, disability, and deafness . (pp. 195-227). Washington : Gallaudet University Press.
2001. "Hulf": Negotiating deafness in a Bedouin community in the Negev . Notes on the Bedouin . 32: pp. 69-83. [Hebrew]
2000. 'Deaf discourse': The social construction of deafness in a Bedouin community . Unpublished MA thesis. Tel Aviv University . [in Hebrew].
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Teaching
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Amsterdam
“Language and Body" (2012-2013)
"Politiek van taal" (Politics of Language) (2012-2013)
"Antropologie van het Midden Oosten" (Anthropology of the Middle East) (2011-2013)
Research Master in Social Science, University of Amsterdam
"Interpretive Workshop" (2005-6)
University College Utrecht, Utrecht University
"Language Contact & Change. part II: a social science perspective" (2008-2013)
"the Anthropology of Health and Medicine" (2007-2009)
Other:
"Cultural Anthropology", Open University of Israel (1998-2002)
"Current Debates in the Sociology and Anthropology of Medicine".
School of Health Professions, Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University (1999-2002)
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Publications
2018
- Kisch, S. (2018). Marriage Conversions: Shari’a Courts, Romanian Brides and Palestinian Bedouin in-Laws. Journal of Mediterranean Studies, 27(2), 149-158. [details]
2017
- Kisch, S. (2017). Al-Sayyid: A Sociolinguistic Sketch. In S. D. Blum (Ed.), Making Sense of Language: Readings in Culture and Communication (3rd ed., pp. 482-487). New York: Oxford University Press. [details]
2012
Kisch, S. (2012). Al-Sayyid: a sociolinguistic sketch. In U. Zeshan, & C. de Vos (Eds.), Sign languages in village communities: anthropological and linguistic insights (pp. 365-372). (Sign language typology; No. 4). Berlin [etc.]: De Gruyter Mouton. [details]- Kisch, S. (2012). Demarcating generations of signers in the dynamic sociolinguistic landscape of a shared sign-language: the case of the Al-Sayyid Bedouin. In U. Zeshan, & C. de Vos (Eds.), Sign languages in village communities: anthropological and linguistic insights (pp. 87-125). (Sign language typology; No. 4). Berlin [etc.]: De Gruyter Mouton. [details]
- Kisch, S. (2012). Privileged and volatile nomadism. In H. Hazan, & E. Hertzog (Eds.), Serendipity in anthropological research: the nomadic turn (pp. 81-92). Farnham: Ashgate. [details]
2009
- Kisch, S. (2009). Reproductive encounters: Negev bedouin women’s lay encounters at childbirth in an Israeli hospital. Anthropological Quarterly, 82(3), 719-754. https://doi.org/10.1353/anq.0.0073 [details]
2008
- Kisch, S. (2008). "Deaf discourse": the social construction of deafness in a Bedouin community. Medical Anthropology, 27(3), 283-313. https://doi.org/10.1080/01459740802222807 [details]
2007
2004
- Kisch, S. (2004). Negotiating (Genetic) Deafness in a Bedouin Community. In J. V. van Cleven (Ed.), Genetics, Disability, and Deafness. (pp. 148-173). Washington DC: Gallaudet University Press. [details]
2009
- Kisch, S. (2009). [Review of: M. Fox (2007) Talking Hands: What Sign Language Reveals About the Mind]. Sign Language & Linguistics, 12(2), 203-210. https://doi.org/10.1075/sll.12.2.05kis [details]
Membership / relevant position
- Kisch, S. (2014). research fellow, Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR).
- Kisch, S. (2012-2014). associate, Amsterdam Centre for Middle Eastern Studies, PC Hoofthuis Spuistraat 134 1012VB Amsterdam Netherlands.
Talk / presentation
- Kisch, S. (invited speaker) (14-2-2010). Sites of de-politicization, Rethinking the Paradigms: Negev Bedouin Research 2000+, Exeter University.
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Ancillary activities
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Kisch, S. (2012). Al-Sayyid: a sociolinguistic sketch. In U. Zeshan, & C. de Vos (Eds.), Sign languages in village communities: anthropological and linguistic insights (pp. 365-372). (Sign language typology; No. 4). Berlin [etc.]: De Gruyter Mouton.