Folklore Studies in a Multicultural World – serie
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Improvised Adolescence
Somali Bantu Teenage Refugees in America
Av Sandra Grady
Häftad, 2015
321 kr
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Changing from child to young adult is difficult everywhere. But to experience childhood in continuous flight from conflict, then move into adolescence as a refugee in a radically different culture, is a more than usually complicated transition for teens and for their parents, communities, teachers, …
Ukrainian Otherlands
Diaspora, Homeland, and Folk Imagination in the Twentieth Century
Häftad, 2015
443 kr
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Ukrainian Otherlands is an innovative exploration of modern ethnic identity, focused on diaspora/homeland understandings of each other in Ukraine and in Ukrainian ethnic communities around the globe. Exploring a rich array of folk songs, poetry and stories, trans-Atlantic correspondence, family …
City of Neighborhoods
Memory, Folklore, and Ethnic Place in Boston
Inbunden, 2016
739 kr
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East Boston has long been known as an Italian neighborhood and Southie as an Irish one, while nearby North Quincy has seen in recent decades an influx of Chinese Americans and immigrants. Such urban spaces in America can become intimately intertwined with ethnic identities (Little Italy, Greektown, …
If You Don't Laugh You'll Cry
The Occupational Humor of White Wisconsin Prison Workers
Inbunden, 2017
795 kr
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A deeply humanistic ethnography of prison workers and their dark humorAmerica is fascinated by prisons and prison culture, but few Americans understand what it is like to work in corrections. Claire Schmidt, whose extended family includes three generations of Wisconsin prison workers, introduces …
Expressions of Sufi Culture in Tajikistan
Inbunden, 2018
795 kr
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This eloquent ethnography reveals the daily lives and religious practice of ordinary Muslim men in Tajikistan as they aspire to become Sufi mystics. Benjamin Gatling describes in vivid detail the range of expressive forms—memories, stories, poetry, artifacts, rituals, and other embodied …
Blood Brothers and Peace Pipes
Performing the Wild West in German Festivals
Inbunden, 2019
1050 kr
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"Nineteenth-century writer Karl May wrote novels about a fictionalized American Wild West that count among the most popular books of German literature to this day. His stories left an imprint on German culture, resulting in a variety of Wild West festivals featuring Native Americans and frontier …
Paradox of Authenticity
Folklore Performance in Post-Communist Slovakia
Inbunden, 2018
811 kr
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Observing the activities of urban folk dance enthusiasts in Slovakia, Joseph Grim Feinberg sets out to scrutinize the processes by which ""authentic folklore"" is identified, talked about, represented, reconstructed, reenacted, and revived.In Slovakia and elsewhere in Eastern Europe after World War …
