My Father's Wars

Migration, Memory, and the Violence of a Century
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-415-85918-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 340 g

Reihe: Innovative Ethnographies

* Winner: International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Outstanding Book Award 2016 *

My Father’s Wars is an anthropologist's vivid account of her father's journey across continents, countries, cultures, generations, and wars. It is a daughter's moving portrait of a charming, funny, wounded and difficult man. And it is a scholar's reflection on the dramatic forces of history, the experience of exile and immigration, the legacies of culture, and the enduring power of memory. This book is for Anthropology and Sociology courses in qualitative methods, ethnography, violence, migration, and ethnicity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Waterston, Alisse

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Selected Table of Contents

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 Ends 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

Über Autor(innen)

Alisse Waterston is Professor, Department of Anthropology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York. She is Editor, Open Anthropology, and President-elect, American Anthropological Association.
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). Alisse Waterston is a Soros International Scholar affiliated with Tbilisi State University in Gender Studies, and serves on the Executive Board, American Anthropological Association.