"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 book is for Anthropology and Sociology courses in qualitative methods, ethnography, violence, migration, and ethnicity.
"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 book is for Anthropology and Sociology courses in qualitative methods, ethnography, violence, migration, and ethnicity.
Alisse Waterston is Presidential Scholar and Professor, Department of Anthropology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, and author or editor of seven books including the graphic novel, Light in Dark Times: The Human Search for Meaning (illustrated by Charlotte Corden). A Long-Term Fellow of the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies (SCAS) in the Programmes in Transnational Processes, Structural Violence, and Inequality (2020-present), she served as President of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) in 2015-17. She is editor of the book series, Intimate Ethnography for Berghahn Books. Professor Waterston is author of two ethnographies on urban poverty in the US (Love, Sorrow and Rage: Destitute Women in a Manhattan Residence and Street Addicts in the Political Economy), and of the edited volumes, An Anthropology of War: Views from the Frontline and Anthropology off the Shelf: Anthropologists on Writing (co-edited with Maria D. Vesperi).
Inhaltsangabe
Prologue 1. The Shtetl Jedwabne Sunrise, Sunset 2. Aftermaths Delicate Memories 3. The Voyage Out Routes 4. The Shopkeepers Return 5. Young Man in Havana The Power of Privilege 6. An American Soldier The Lost Ones 7. In Love and War Postwar 8. American Dreams/Dreaming in Cuban Habitus 9. Dictators The End of Empires 10. Cigarettes, Babies, and Change Possession and Dispossession 11. Things Fall Apart The Sacred and the Secular 12. Te Amamos Siempre, Paisano The Story of My Story Epilogue Afterword: Out of the Shadows and Into the Present
Prologue 1. The Shtetl Jedwabne Sunrise, Sunset 2. Aftermaths Delicate Memories 3. The Voyage Out Routes 4. The Shopkeepers Return 5. Young Man in Havana The Power of Privilege 6. An American Soldier The Lost Ones 7. In Love and War Postwar 8. American Dreams/Dreaming in Cuban Habitus 9. Dictators The End of Empires 10. Cigarettes, Babies, and Change Possession and Dispossession 11. Things Fall Apart The Sacred and the Secular 12. Te Amamos Siempre, Paisano The Story of My Story Epilogue Afterword: Out of the Shadows and Into the Present
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