Date of Completion
10-4-2019
Embargo Period
10-1-2029
Keywords
Rituals, Immigrants, Cultural Practices, Ethiopian Jews, Israel
Major Advisor
Andrew Deener
Associate Advisor
Gaye Tuchman
Associate Advisor
Ruth Braunstein
Associate Advisor
Claudio Benzecry
Associate Advisor
Nissim Mizrachi
Field of Study
Sociology
Degree
Doctor of Philosophy
Open Access
Open Access
Abstract
This dissertation is about migration and the process of ritual integration into a new context. It speaks of the constraints, failures, and success of reassembling ritual practices in a post-migration context and of their consequences on group cohesion. I focus ethnographically on four types of pre-migration ritual practices. Each speaks to different domain of communal life—bodily greetings, ceremonial coffee, birth-related rituals, and death related rituals. This work engages with and draw on literatures from micro sociology, ethnicity and migration studies, and sheds light on how certain pre-migration rituals effectively continue in the post-migration context, tie people together and foster groupness, while others get contested, split people apart, and foster bifurcation and conflict.
Recommended Citation
Zawdu Gebyanesh, Adane Eitan, "When Rituals Migrate: A Study of The Relationships Between Collaborative Cultural Practices and Social Ties Among Ethiopian Immigrants in Israel" (2019). Doctoral Dissertations. 2334.
https://digitalcommons.lib.uconn.edu/dissertations/2334