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Dr. Carmela Abdar | Graduate Program in Folklore and Folk Culture Studies

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Dr. Carmela Abdar

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Adjunct Lecturer in the Program for Folklore and Folk Culture Studies, Dr. Carmela Abder teaches the following topics: Field work in Israeli folk culture; The construction and presentation of identities in visual image in Muslim countries and in Israeli society. Her fields of interest include the body, costume and gender in Yemen and other Muslim countries; the family album – family images reflecting historical periods and constructing memory; Orientalist photography – Oriental Jews depicted; the image of the Jew in Yemen in Hebrew and Israeli culture – between deconstructing the personal-communal body and constructing the national body.