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This is an ethnographic study of the lives of four generations of Palestinian refugees at Aida Refugee Camp, Bethlehem. The struggle began when Palestinians were exiled from their village home in 1948 and, since that time, have been forced to organize against the Israelis as a m…

The Moravian town of Bethlehem went through a series of developmental changes between 1740-1745 that saw the community go from a closed-form of church-controlled communalism to an entirely open society. This change was precipitated by the outside world’s direct influence on the …