Milk and honey : technologies of plenty in the making of a Holy Land

Milk and honey technologies of plenty in the making of a Holy Land

An innovative historical analysis of the intersection of religion and technology in making the modern state, focusing on bodily production and reproduction across the human-animal divide. In Milk and Honey, Tamar Novick writes a revolutionary environmental history of the state that centers on the in...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Novick, Tamar, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press 2023
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Inside technology
Materias:
Agricultural innovations > Israel > History.
Agricultural innovations > Palestine > History.
Agricultural innovations > Religious aspects.
Agriculture > Religious aspects.
Technology > Religious aspects.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: A Land Flowing with Milk and Honey
  • Interlude: Bygone Buffalo and Lingering Value-A Prehistory of Plenty
  • 1 Bible, Bees, and Boxes: Technologies of Movement and Obstruction
  • 2 Getting Their Goat
  • 3 The Rise and Fall of Hebrew Shepherding
  • 4 Holy Cow! Milk Yield and the Burdens of the "New Jewess"
  • 5 Urine and Gold: Infertility Research and the Limits of Plenty
  • Conclusion: The Synesthetic Experience
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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