What's in a name : stories behind Arabic-Palestinian place-names in Israel / Amer Dahamshe ; translated by Leigh Chipman.
| Author/creator | Dahamshe, Amer, 1967- author. |
| Other author | Chipman, Leigh, translator. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2026] |
| Description | 225 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Uniform title | Maḳom la-dur bo ṿe-shem lo. English http://id.loc.gov/resources/hubs/afcae92e-31c2-7c65-8e33-66e928f6fcaf |
| Variant title | What is in a name |
| Portion of title | Stories behind Arabic-Palestinian place-names in Israel |
| Series | Olamot series in the humanities and social sciences Olamot series in humanities and social sciences. ^A1459698 |
| Contents | Introduction : Methodology, the Problem of Terminology, and the Theoretical Framework -- The Study of Palestinian Place-Names : Between Theory and Ideology -- Arab Historical Memories and Linguistic Shades of Other Languages -- The Narrative of the Land and Natural Landscape in Palestinian Names -- Distinction between Names of Inhabited Locations and Names of Natural Features : The Recreation of Social Class, Gender, and Village Prestige -- Arab Palestinian Toponymy -- from Arabism to Hebraization. |
| Abstract | "One spring day in the 1980s, my family and I woke up to the sight of bulldozers, accompanied by Israeli policemen, ascending the hill called Jabal Sīkh in Kafr Kannā. At the time, I was a pupil in elementary school, and the hill could be seen clearly from the school. My teacher explained to the class that the Jewish National Fund workers were leveling the hill and planting pine and cypress trees that would provide shade for us in the play areas that would be erected between the trees. Years passed, playgrounds were not erected, and the hill was partly settled by immigrants from the former Soviet Union and given a biblical name: Mount Yonah. My friends and I continue to call the hill by the name we heard from the elders of Kafr Kannā. Examining the geographical names used by the Palestinian minority living in Israel, What's in a Name is a book about the Palestinian names of places: their pronunciation in local dialects, their history, the motifs and themes underlying their bestowal, and the cultural messages they communicate. Based on a rich repertoire of original fieldwork in Arabic, Amer Dahamshe analyzes the Arabic names of villages and towns as well as natural formations such as rivers, hills, and meadows in the Galilee. In doing so, Dahamshe charts the past and present of the cultural geography of Palestinian society as a 'memory-scape' that reveals the true historical map of Israel/Palestine and brings to life its human habitation across the generations. A poetic study of the ideological and cultural construction of how names create meaning, What's in a Name shows how names can reflect multiculturalism and a tradition of tolerance in spite of ongoing processes of erasure"-- Provided by publisher. |
| General note | Translation of: Maḳom la-dur bo ṿe-shem lo : ḳeriʼah sifrutit ṿe-tarbutit ba-shemot ha-ʻArviyim shel ha-arets = A local habitation and a name : a literary and cultural reading of the Arabic geographical names of the land. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version http://id.loc.gov/entities/relationships/onlineversion Dahamshe, Amer, 1967- Maḳom la-dur bo ṿe-shem lo. English What's in a name Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2026] 9780253075208 |
| Issued in other form | ebook version : 9780253075208 |
| Genre/form | Translations |
| LCCN | 2025033214 |
| ISBN | 9780253075185 |
| ISBN | 9780253075178 hardcover |
| ISBN | 0253075173 hardcover |
| ISBN | 0253075181 paperback |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| ISBN | electronic book |
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