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Varieties of Ethnic Experience
Kinship, Class, and Gender Among California Italian-Americans
Inbunden, 1984
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Taking a novel anthropological approach to the issue of white ethnicity in the United States, this book challenges the model of uniform ethnic family and community culture, and argues for a reconsideration of the meaning of class, kinship, and gender in America's past and present. Micaela di …
American Odyssey
Haitians in New York City
Inbunden, 1984
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Caribbean immigrants have now become part of the social landscape of many American cities. Few studies, however, have treated in detail the process of their integration in American society. American Odyssey assesses the development and adaptation, in both human and socio-economic terms, of the …
Women's Work and Chicano Families
Cannery Workers of the Santa Clara Valley
Inbunden, 1987
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At the time Women's Work and Chicano Families: Cannery Workers of the Santa Clara Valley was published, little research had been done on the relationship between the wage labor and household labor of Mexican American women. Drawing on revisionist social theories relating to Chicano family structure …
City of Green Benches
Growing Old in a New Downtown
Inbunden, 1985
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St. Petersburg, Florida, has become virtually synonymous with retirement and old age. The city of green benches once courted its elderly population; now, however, it seeks to rejuvenate its image, to attract the young through urban revitalization. In this humane and sensitive book, Maria Vesperi, …
Praying for Justice
Faith, Order, and Community in an American Town
Inbunden, 1986
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Anthropologist Carol J. Greenhouse offers an ethnographic study of attitudes toward conflict and law in a predominantly white, middle-class, suburban, principally Southern Baptist community.
Chinese Working-Class Lives
Getting by in Taiwan
Av Hill Gates
Inbunden, 1988
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Taiwan's working class has been shaped by Chinese tradition, by colonialism, and by rapid industrialization. This book defines that class, explores that history, and presents with sensitive honesty the life experiences of some of its women and men. Hill Gates first provides a solid and informative …
Upscaling Downtown
Stalled Gentrification in Washington, D.C.
Inbunden, 1988
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In Upscaling Downtown, anthropologist Brett Williams provides an ethnography of a changing urban neighborhood that she calls "Elm Valley." Located in Washington, D.C., Elm Valley was one of the first neighborhoods to draw middle-class property owners back to the inner city, but a faltering housing …
History and Power in the Study of Law
New Directions in Legal Anthropology
Av June Starr, Jane F. Collier
Inbunden, 1989
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Building on earlier work in the anthropology of law and taking a critical stance toward it, June Starr and Jane F. Collier ask, "Should social anthropologists continue to isolate the 'legal' as a separate field of study?" To answer this question, they confront critics of legal anthropology who …
Accommodation Without Assimilation
Sikh Immigrants in an American High School
Inbunden, 1988
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"A new version of the old 'immigrant success' story is circulating in America. It implies that the apparent academic progress of recent arrivals to our schools is the result of simple head work, opportunity, and a good attitude. Margaret Gibson has given us a complex antidote to this myth in a …
Lord I'm Coming Home
Everyday Aesthetics in Tidewater North Carolina
Av John Forrest
Inbunden, 1988
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Lord I'm Coming Home focuses on a small, white, rural fishing community on the southern reaches of the Great Dismal Swamp in North Carolina. By means of a new kind of anthropological fieldwork, John Forrest seeks to document the entire aesthetic experience of a group of people, showing the …
Uneasy Endings
Daily Life in an American Nursing Home
Inbunden, 1988
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"If we continue, we grow old, and this is how it could be for us," writes Renée Rose Shield in her candid and sympathetic account of life in one American nursing home. Drawing on anthropological methods and theory to illuminate institutional life, she probes the sources of the profound sense of …
Distant Companions
Servants and Employers in Zambia, 1900–1985
Inbunden, 1989
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Distant Companions tells the fascinating story of the lives and times of domestic servants and their employers in Zambia from the beginning of white settlement during the colonial period until after independence. Emphasizing the interactive nature of relationships of domination, the book is useful …
Creativity/Anthropology
Av Smadar Lavie, Kirin Narayan m. fl.
Inbunden, 1993
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Creativity and play erupt in the most solemn of everyday worlds as individuals reshape traditional forms in the light of changing historical circumstances. In this lively volume, fourteen distinguished anthropologists explore the life of creativity in social life across the globe and within the …
Magic City
Unemployment in a Working-Class Community
Inbunden, 1989
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Thirty-two million Americans have lost jobs because of permanent factory closings since 1970. Gregory Pappas here provides an intimate account of the economic, social, psychological, and medical consequences of one such closing.Once known as "the magic city" of economic opportunity, Barberton, …
Civilized Women
Gender and Prestige in Southeastern Liberia
Av Mary Moran
Inbunden, 1990
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Civilized Women is concerned with the intersection of cultural constructions of gender and other systems of ranking among the Glebo people of Cape Palmas, in southeastern Liberia. Like other Liberians, the Glebo people make a social distinction between western-educated wage-earners, or "civilized …
"Getting Paid"
Youth Crime and Work in the Inner City
Inbunden, 1990
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The working class in New York City was remade in the mid-nineteenth century. In the 1820s a substantial majority of city artisans were native-born; by the 1850s three-quarters of the city's laboring men and women were immigrants. How did the influx of this large group of young adults affect the …
Nuclear Summer
The Clash of Communities at the Seneca Women's Peace Encampment
Inbunden, 1992
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When thousands of women gathered in 1983 to protest the stockpiling of nuclear weapons at a rural upstate New York military depot, the area was shaken by their actions. What so disturbed residents that they organized counterdemonstrations, wrote hundreds of letters to local newspapers, verbally and …
Lady Friends
Hawaiian Ways and the Ties That Define
Av Karen L. Ito
Inbunden, 1999
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Many indigenous Hawaiians who have moved to the islands' cities languish at the bottom of the socioeconomic scale and are thought to have lost their cultural roots. Initially apolitical urban Hawaiians were often skeptical of activists who sought to revitalize traditional ways; yet, as Karen L. Ito …
Caribbean New York
Black Immigrants and the Politics of Race
Inbunden, 1992
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Since 1965, West Indians have been emigrating to the United States in record numbers, and to New York City in particular. Caribbean New York shows how the new immigration is reshaping American race relations and sheds much-needed light on factors that underlie some of the city's explosive racial …
Chinatown No More
Taiwan Immigrants in Contemporary New York
Inbunden, 1992
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By focusing on the social and cultural life of post-1965 Taiwan immigrants in Queens, New York, this book shifts Chinese American studies from ethnic enclaves to the diverse multiethnic neighborhoods of Flushing and Elmhurst. As Hsiang-shui Chen documents, the political dynamics of these …
Dismantling Apartheid
A South African Town in Transition
Inbunden, 1994
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As a result of Pretoria's 1976 imposition of independence on the "black homeland" of Transkei, its capital city, Umtata, became one of the first communities in South Africa to experience fundamental changes in the apartheid. This timely book discusses those relationships that remained unchanged, as …
Sunbelt Working Mothers
Reconciling Family and Factory
Av Louise Lamphere, Patricia Zavella m. fl.
Inbunden, 1993
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The recession of the 1980s triggered important economic and cultural changes in the United States, and working women were at the center of these changes. Sunbelt Working Mothers compares the experiences of Mexican–American and white mothers employed in apparel and electronics factories in …
Lesbian Mothers
Accounts of Gender in American Culture
Av Ellen Lewin
Inbunden, 1993
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Within a society that long considered "lesbian motherhood" a contradiction in terms, what were the experiences of lesbian mothers at the end of the twentieth century? In this illuminating book, lesbian mothers tell their stories of how they became mothers; how they see their relationships with …
Cities, Classes, and the Social Order
Inbunden, 1994
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Cities, Classes, and the Social Order brings together nine conceptual and theoretical essays by the anthropologist, Anthony Leeds (1925–1989), whose pioneering work in the anthropology of complex societies was built on formative personal and research experiences in both urban and rural settings in …
Breaking the Silence
Redress and Japanese American Ethnicity
Inbunden, 1995
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This book is a unique interpretation of how wartime internment and the movement for redress affected Japanese Americans. Yasuko I. Takezawa, a Japanese national who has lived in the Japanese American community as well as in the larger American society, has a distinctive vantage point from which to …
Underground Harmonies
Music and Politics in the Subways of New York
Inbunden, 1995
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This is the first book on New York's subway musicians—modern troubadours who perform on platforms, mezzanines, and even trains pounding through the city. Illustrating her account with captivating photos, Susie J. Tanenbaum draws on interviews with musicians and their audiences to explore both the …
Strawberry Fields
Politics, Class, and Work in California Agriculture
Inbunden, 1996
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This book is about social conflict and economic restructuring, and the play of political forces in the relationship between the two. The purpose of the book is to engage and develop social theory through the causal analysis of a particular case, but to increase under-standing of a fascinating and …
Korean American Dream
Immigrants and Small Business in New York City
Inbunden, 1997
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Korean immigrants to the United States establish their own small businesses at a rate exceeding that of immigrants from any other nation, with more than one third of all Korean immigrant adults involved in small businesses. Kyeyoung Park examines this phenomenon in Queens, New York, tracing its …
Inside the Revolution
Everyday Life in Socialist Cuba
Inbunden, 1997
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The first ethnographic study of life in Cuba to emerge in over twenty years, Inside the Revolution offers a rare, close view of how socialist ideology translates into everyday experience in one Cuban municipality. Mona Rosendahl draws on eighteen months of fieldwork, in a municipality she calls by …
Future of Us All
Race and Neighborhood Politics in New York City
Av Roger Sanjek
Inbunden, 1998
876 kr
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Before the next century is out, Americans of African, Asian, and Latin American ancestry will outnumber those of European origin. In the Elmhurst-Corona neighborhood of Queens, New York City, the transition occurred during the 1970s, and the area's two-decade experience of multiracial diversity …
