Paper short abstract:

This poster aims to facilitate discussion about concepts of national identity and national culture, and how they relate to social and political issues. It also questions the possibility of imagining a national identity in a multi-ethnic society, and the relationship between anthropology, academia and the creation of a national identity. Raw data (such as photographs) is displayed from two years of fieldwork in an Israeli college in the West-Bank of Israel/Palestine.

Paper long abstract:

The purpose of this poster is to facilitate an open discussion about the concepts of national identity and national culture, and about how they relate to social and political issues. The poster also intednds to raise the questions of the possibility of imagining a national identity in a multi-ethnic society, and the relationship between anthropology, academia and the creation of a national identity. In this poster I intend to present only raw data(such as photographs)collected in my two-years fieldwork in an Israeli college in the West-Bank of Israel/Palestine.