“…While I agree that indeed both themes have not been the primary focus of much anthropological research 6 , land alienation is accounted for and embedded in many of the works cited in this section. As for religion and piety, both are integral to the work of a number of authors (Knudsen 2003a(Knudsen , 2003b, (Abufarha 2009), (Bowman 2013, 2011a, 2011b), (Lybarger 2007), (Sa'ar 1998) 7 , (Rougier 2007) 8 , (Suhr 2013) 9 , and ( Kublitz 2001Kublitz , 2016. My own work aims at showing that piety is often inextricably tied to the "secular" rallying for "The Palestinian Cause" in practice (Schiocchet 2015(Schiocchet , 2013(Schiocchet , 2011.…”