Books by Haim Hazan

One of the major characteristics of our contemporary culture is a positive, almost banal, view of the transgression and disruption of cultural boundaries. Strangers, migrants and nomads are celebrated in our postmodern world of hybrids and cyborgs.

Challenging the idea that fieldwork is the only way to gather data, and that standard methods are the sole route to fruitful analysis, this book explores the role of fortune and happenstance in anthropology. It also includes case studies from Europe and the Middle East to examine both new and old questions.

Gathering together in a structured curriculum of seminars and discussion groups and calling themselves the University of the Third Age, the elders intellectually reexamine the spectrum of sociocultural and epistemological principles starting with basics.