(Paperback)

It presents a vision of Israel as an epistemological rather than an ontological entity; a perspective on the world rather than an entity in it.

(Hardback)

In presenting a view of ethnicity as an epistemological rather than an ontological entity, this work seeks to correct the pronounced tendency towards 'analytical groupism' in the academic literature. It challenges what Pierre Bourdieu has called 'our primary inclination to think the world in a substantialist manner'.