Civilized Women

Mary Moran

• Hardcover | Engels | Anthropology of Contemporary Issues
• Civilized Women is concerned with the intersection of cultural constructions of gender and other systems of ranking among the Glebo people of Cape Pal... Lees meer

Getting Paid

Mercer L Sullivan

• Paperback | Engels | Anthropology of Contemporary Issues
• 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... Lees meer

Chinese Working-Class Lives

Hill Gates

• Paperback | Engels | Anthropology of Contemporary Issues
• Taiwan's working class has been shaped by Chinese tradition, by colonialism, and by rapid industrialization. This book defines that class, explores th... Lees meer

Distant Companions

Karen Tranberg Hansen

• Hardcover | Engels | Anthropology of Contemporary Issues
• Distant Companions tells the fascinating story of the lives and times of domestic servants and their employers in Zambia from the beginning of white s... Lees meer

A Neighborhood Divided

Jane Balin

• Hardcover | Engels | Anthropology of Contemporary Issues
• 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 Ja... Lees meer

Becoming American, Being Indian

Madhulika S Khandelwal

• Hardcover | Engels | Anthropology of Contemporary Issues
• Since the 1960s the number of Indian immigrants and their descendants living in the United States has grown dramatically. During the same period, the ... Lees meer

Lady Friends

Karen L Ito

• Hardcover | Engels | Anthropology of Contemporary Issues
• 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 c... Lees meer

Magic City

Gregory Pappas

• Hardcover | Engels | Anthropology of Contemporary Issues
• Thirty-two million Americans have lost jobs because of permanent factory closings since 1970. Gregory Pappas here provides an intimate account of the ... Lees meer

Chinatown No More

Hsiang-Shui Chen

• Hardcover | Engels | Anthropology of Contemporary Issues
• 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 ... Lees meer

Sunbelt Working Mothers

Louise Lamphere, Patricia Zavella, Felipe Gonzales

• Hardcover | Engels | Anthropology of Contemporary Issues
• The recession of the 1980s triggered important economic and cultural changes in the United States, and working women were at the center of these chang... Lees meer

Wanderings

Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf

• Paperback | Engels | Anthropology of Contemporary Issues
• In one of the first books devoted to the experience of Sudanese immigrants and exiles in the United States, Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf places her commun... Lees meer

Rum and Axes

Janet Siskind

• Hardcover | Engels | Anthropology of Contemporary Issues
• Janet Siskind goes back to the beginnings of industrial capitalism in the United States to better understand the formation of the country's capitalist... Lees meer

Varieties of Ethnic Experience

Micaela Di Leonardo

• Hardcover | Engels | Anthropology of Contemporary Issues
• Taking a novel anthropological approach to the issue of white ethnicity in the United States, this book challenges the model of uniform ethnic family ... Lees meer

The Accommodation Without Assimilation

Margaret A Gibson

• Paperback | Engels | Anthropology of Contemporary Issues
• "A new version of the old 'immigrant success' story is circulating in America. It implies that the apparent academic progress of recent arrivals to ou... Lees meer

Inside the Revolution

Mona Rosendahl

• Paperback | Engels | Anthropology of Contemporary Issues
• 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... Lees meer

Brokered Homeland

Joshua Hotaka Roth

• Hardcover | Engels | Anthropology of Contemporary Issues
• Faced with an aging workforce, Japanese firms are hiring foreign workers in ever-increasing numbers. In 1990 Japan's government began encouraging the ... Lees meer

Creativity/Anthropology

• Paperback | Engels | Anthropology of Contemporary Issues
• Creativity and play erupt in the most solemn of everyday worlds as individuals reshape traditional forms in the light of changing historical circumsta... Lees meer

Underground Harmonies

Susie J Tanenbaum

• Hardcover | Engels | Anthropology of Contemporary Issues
• This is the first book on New York's subway musicians--modern troubadours who perform on platforms, mezzanines, and even trains pounding through the c... Lees meer

Lesbian Mothers

Ellen Lewin

• Hardcover | Engels | Anthropology of Contemporary Issues
• Within a society that long considered "lesbian motherhood" a contradiction in terms, what were the experiences of lesbian mothers at the end of the tw... Lees meer

Women's Work and Chicano Families

Patricia Zavella

• Hardcover | Engels | Anthropology of Contemporary Issues
• 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 relations... Lees meer

Creativity/Anthropology

• Hardcover | Engels | Anthropology of Contemporary Issues
• Creativity and play erupt in the most solemn of everyday worlds as individuals reshape traditional forms in the light of changing historical circumsta... Lees meer

Brokered Homeland

Joshua Hotaka Roth

• Paperback | Engels | Anthropology of Contemporary Issues
• Faced with an aging workforce, Japanese firms are hiring foreign workers in ever-increasing numbers. In 1990 Japan's government began encouraging the ... Lees meer

The Korean American Dream

Kyeyoung Park

• Paperback | Engels | Anthropology of Contemporary Issues
• Korean immigrants to the United States establish their own small businesses at a rate exceeding that of immigrants from any other nation, with more th... Lees meer

Diamond Stories

Renée Rose Shield

• Hardcover | Engels | Anthropology of Contemporary Issues
• Sequestered within the heart of a cosmopolitan city is an exotic world--a place where diamonds, astronomically priced, are bought and sold on the stre... Lees meer