What's in a Name
Stories Behind Arabic-Palestinian Place-Names in Israel
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Product details:
- Publisher Indiana University Press
- Date of Publication 3 March 2026
- ISBN 9780253075178
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages238 pages
- Size 229x152 mm
- Weight 666 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 3 charts 700
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Long description:
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 (Cana of Galilei).
What's in a Name examines the geographical names used by the Palestinian minority living in Israel: their pronunciation in local dialects; their narratives, stories, and history; the motifs and themes underlying their bestowal; how they are perceived; 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 Arab-Palestinian society in Israel. In doing so, Dahamshe provides different cultural explanations for the bestowal of these names, their origin as explained in the local stories of the Palestinian people, and their popular, communal, and autobiographical memories across 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.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Methodology, the Problem of Terminology, and the Theoretical Framework
1. The Study of Palestinian Place-Names: Between Theory and Ideology
2. Arab Historical Memories and Linguistic Shades of Other Languages
3. The Narrative of the Land and Natural Landscape in Palestinian Names
4. Distinction between Names of Inhabited Locations and Names of Natural Features: The Re-creation of Social Class, Gender, and Village Prestige
5. Arab-Palestinian Toponymy – from Arabism to Hebraicization
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