Book by Johannes Becker presenting an ethnographic study of social life in the Old City of Jerusalem, examining how merchants, residents, and visitors navigate the densely contested space through daily practices of commerce, movement, and interaction. Becker traces biographical trajectories and historical transformations in the Old City, showing how global tourism, Israeli control, and local community life intersect in the physical and social fabric of the space. The study provides an unusually granular account of how ordinary people make life in one of the world's most politically fraught urban environments. Recommended for urban anthropologists, social geographers, and researchers studying everyday life under occupation in Jerusalem, providing detailed ethnographic grounding that complements the historical and political analyses dominant in the Jerusalem scholarship literature.
