| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 190 p. :) ill |
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Innovative ethnographies |
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Innovative ethnographies
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| Contents |
Ch. 1. The Shtetl Jedwabne. Sunrise, sunset -- ch. 2. Aftermaths. Delicate memories -- ch. 3. The voyage out. Routes -- ch. 4. The shopkeepers. Return -- ch. 5. Young man in Havana. The power of privilege -- ch. 6. An American soldier. The lost ones -- ch. 7. In love and war. Postwar -- ch. 8. American dreams/dreaming in Cuban. Habitus -- ch. 9. Dictators. The ends of empires -- ch. 10. Cigarettes, babies, and change. Possession and dispossession -- ch. 11. Things fall apart. The sacred and the secular -- ch. 12. Te Amamos Siempre, Paisano. The story of my story |
| Summary |
"My father was born into war," begins this remarkable saga in Alisse Waterston's intimate ethnography, a story that is also twentieth century social history. This is an anthropologist's vivid account of her father's journey across continents, countries, cultures, languages, generations--and wars. It is a daughter's moving portrait of a charming, funny, wounded and difficult man, his relationships with those he loved, and his most sacred of beliefs. And it is a scholar's reflection on the dramatic forces of history, the legacies of culture, the experience of a Jewish immigrant, and the enduring power of memory. This book is for Sociology and Anthropology courses in qualitative methods, ethnography, violence, migration, and ethnicity"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Waterston, Michael, 1913-2006
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Waterston, Michael, 1913-2006. |
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Jews -- Cuba -- Biography
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Jews -- United States -- Biography
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Jews, Polish -- Cuba -- Biography
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Jews, Polish -- United Stated -- Biography
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Jews, Polish.
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Jews.
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Jedwabne (Poland) -- Biography
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Cuba.
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Poland -- Jedwabne.
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United States.
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| Genre/Form |
Biography.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0203798740 |
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0415859174 |
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0415859182 |
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113512700X |
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1135127077 |
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113512714X |
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9780203798744 |
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9780415859172 |
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9780415859189 |
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9781135127008 |
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9781135127077 |
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9781135127145 |
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