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Praying For Justice - Faith, Order, And Community In An American Town

by Carol J. Greenhouse

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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.
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Hispanas De Queens - Latino Panethnicity In A New York City Neighborhood

by Milagros Ricourt e Ruby Danta

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 What happens when persons of several Latin American national groups reside in the same neighborhoodâ€" Milagros Ricourt and Ruby Danta consider the stories of women of different nationalitiesâ€"Colombian, Cuban, Dominican, Ecuadorian, Peruvian, Puerto...
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Going Native - Indians In The American Cultural Imagination

by Shari M. Huhndorf

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 Huhndorf looks at modern cultural manifestations of the desire of European Americans to emulate Native Americans, showing how seemingly harmless images of Native Americans can articulate and reinforce a range of power relations including slavery, patriarchy, and oppression.
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Lesbian Mothers - Accounts Of Gender In American Culture

by Ellen Lewin

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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 their children, relatives, lovers, and friends and...
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Distant Companions - Servants And Employers In Zambia, 1900â€“1985

by Karen Tranberg Hansen

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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 for readers who seek to understand the dynamics...
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Cities, Classes, And The Social Order

by Anthony Lee

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 This volume brings together nine conceptual and theoretical essays by the influential anthropologist, Anthony Leeds (1925â€"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 the US, Brazil, Venezuela, and Portugal.
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Reckoning With Homelessness

by Kim Hopper

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 Kim Hopper has dedicated his career to trying to address the problem of homelessness in the United States. In this powerful book, he draws upon his dual strengths as anthropologist and advocate to provide a deeper understanding of the roots of homelessness.
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Dismantling Apartheid - A South African Town In Transition

by Walton Johnson

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 Providing an informed account of change and continuity in one town, Dismantling Apartheid is a compelling preview of future social relations in South Africa....
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Civilized Women - Gender And Prestige In Southeastern Liberia

by Mary Moran

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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.
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Becoming American, Being Indian - An Immigrant Community In New York City

by Madhulika S. Khandelwal

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 Since the 1960s the number of Indian immigrants and their descendants living in the United States has grown dramatically. During the same period, the make-up of this community has also changedâ€"the highly educated professional elite who came to this...
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Accommodation Without Assimilation - Sikh Immigrants In An American High School

by Margaret A. Gibson

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 A holistic portrait which reveals why Sikh high school students, despite language barriers, prejudice, and significant cultural differences, often outperform their majority peers and other United States minority groups.
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The Varieties Of Ethnic Experience - Kinship, Class, And Gender Among California Italian-Americans

by Micaela Di Leonardo

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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.
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American Odyssey - Haitians In New York City

by Michel Laguerre

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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...
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Sunbelt Working Mothers - Reconciling Family And Factory

by Felipe Gonzales, Louise Lamphere e Patricia Zavella

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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 Mexicanâ€"American and white mothers employed in apparel and electronics factories in Albuquerque and illuminates the ways in which individual...
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Antler On The Sea - The Yup'Ik And Chukchi Of The Russian Far East

by Anna M. Kerttula

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 Anna M. Kerttula, an anthropologist, offers a vivid portrayal of life in Sireniki, a Siberian village on the Bering Sea. Once a traditional Yup'ik community, it was by the final years of the Soviet Empire home to three cultural groups: the Yup'ik...
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Ginseng And Aspirin - Health Care Alternatives For Aging Chinese In New York

by Zibin Guo

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 Navigating the maze of modern American health care is rarely easy; those who enter it are confronted with a dizzying array of specialists, practitioners, and clinics from which to choose, and are forced to make decisions regarding drugs and treatments...
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A Neighborhood Divided - Community Resistance To An Aids Care Facility

by Jane Balin

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 When a nursing facility for AIDS patients is planned for a city neighborhood, residents might be expected to respond, "Not in my backyard." But, as Jane Balin recounts in A Neighborhood Divided, when that community is known for its racial and ethnic...
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Inside The Revolution - Everyday Life In Socialist Cuba

by Mona Rosendahl

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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...
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The Korean American Dream - Immigrants And Small Business In New York City

by Kyeyoung Park

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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...
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Snakes - Ecology And Conservation

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 In the first book on snakes written with a focus on conservation, editors Stephen J. Mullin and Richard A. Seigel bring together leading herpetologists to review and synthesize the ecology, conservation, and management of snakes worldwide.
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Lady Friends - Hawaiian Ways And The Ties That Define

by Karen L. Ito

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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...
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Ginseng And Aspirin - Health Care Alternatives For Aging Chinese In New York

by Zibin Guo

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 Navigating the maze of modern American health care is rarely easy; those who enter it are confronted with a dizzying array of specialists, practitioners, and clinics from which to choose, and are forced to make decisions regarding drugs and treatments...
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The Magic City - Unemployment In A Working-Class Community

by Gregory Pappas

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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.
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Underground Harmonies - Music And Politics In The Subways Of New York

by Susie J. Tanenbaum

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 This is the first book on New York's subway musiciansâ€"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...
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