Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Yoram S. Carmeli and Kalman Applbaum -- Of thorns and flowers: consuming identities in the Negev / Fran Markowitz and Natan Uriely -- Consumption and the making of neighborliness: a Tel-Aviv case study / Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli -- Tourism and change in a Galilee KibbutzKibbutz: an ethnography / Ronit Grossman -- The ultraorthodox Flaneur: toward the pleasure principle. Consuming time and space in the contemporary Haredi population of Jerusalem / Tamar El-Or and Eran Neria -- Food for thought: the dining table and identity construction among Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union in Israel / Julia Bernstein and Yoram S. Carmeli -- "Doing market" across national and gender divides: consumption patterns of Israeli Palestinians / Amalia Sa'ar -- Consumption under construction: power and production of homes in Galilee / Tania Forte -- Consuming the Holy Spirit in the Holy Land: evangelical churches, labor migrants and the Jewish State / Rebeca Raijman and Adriana Kemp -- Afterword / David Miller.