|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1. |
Record Nr. |
UNINA9910458753103321 |
|
|
Autore |
Bacon Jean Leslie <1962-> |
|
|
Titolo |
Life lines [[electronic resource] ] : community, family, and assimilation among Asian Indian immigrants / / Jean Bacon |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Pubbl/distr/stampa |
|
|
New York, : Oxford University Press, 1996 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
ISBN |
|
1-280-52831-1 |
0-19-535669-1 |
1-4294-1558-4 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Descrizione fisica |
|
1 online resource (314 p.) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Disciplina |
|
305.891411077311 |
305.895073 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Soggetti |
|
East Indian Americans - Cultural assimilation - Illinois - Chicago |
East Indian Americans - Illinois - Chicago - Ethnic identity |
Electronic books. |
Chicago (Ill.) Social conditions |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lingua di pubblicazione |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
|
|
|
|
|
Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
|
|
|
|
|
Note generali |
|
Description based upon print version of record. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di bibliografia |
|
Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-281) and index. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di contenuto |
|
Contents; 1. Introduction; I: Public Life; 2. The Question of Worldview; 3. Organizational Life in the Indian Community; 4. Organizations of the Second Generation; 5. Problems Talk: The Rhetoric of Adjustment in the Immigrant Press; II: Family Portraits; 6. Family Life; 7. The Nagars: Duty and Heart; 8. The lyengars: Historical Indians; 9. The Kumars: Compromise; 10. The Shenoys: Alternative Identities; 11. The Shankars: Searching for a Close Family; III: Family and Community; 12. Families: A Model of Intergenerational Change |
13. Families and Organizations: A Division of Labor in Support of CommunityAppendix A. Organizations of the Indian Community; Appendix B. Some Notes on Method; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sommario/riassunto |
|
This text is intended for sociologists and anthropologists interested in ethnicity, community and integration amongst Asian Indian immigrants. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|