My father's wars : migration, memory, and the violence of a century / / Alisse Waterston

• Autore: Waterston Alisse <1951-, >
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (211 p.)
• Disciplina: 943.8/3604092
• Soggetto topico: Jews, Polish - United States; Jews, Polish - Cuba; Jews - Cuba; Jews - United States
• Soggetto geografico: Jedwabne (Poland) Biography
• Classificazione: SOC002010SOC026000
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; My Father's Wars; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Dedication; Table of Contents ; Acknowledgments; Prologue; Chapter 1; The Shtetl Jedwabne; Sunrise, Sunset; Chapter 2; Aftermaths; Delicate Memories; Chapter 3; The Voyage Out; Routes; Chapter 4; The Shopkeepers; Return; Chapter 5; Young Man in Havana; The Power of Privilege; Chapter 6; An American Soldier; The Lost Ones; Chapter 7; In Love and War; Postwar; Chapter 8; American Dreams/Dreaming in Cuban; Habitus; Chapter 9; Dictators; The Ends of Empires; Chapter 10; Cigarettes, Babies, and Change; Possession and Dispossession; Chapter 11 ; Things Fall ApartThe Sacred and the Secular; Chapter 12; Te Amamos Siempre, Paisano; The Story of My Story; Epilogue; Notes; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: "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 is an anthropologist's vivid account of her father's journey across continents, countries, cultures, languages, generations--and wars. It is a daughter's moving portrait of a charming, funny, wounded and difficult man, his relationships with those he loved, and his most sacred of beliefs. And it is a scholar's reflection on the dramatic forces of history, the legacies of culture, the experience of a Jewish immigrant, and the enduring power of memory. This book is for Sociology and Anthropology courses in qualitative methods, ethnography, violence, migration, and ethnicity"--
• Titolo autorizzato: My father's wars
• ISBN: 1-135-12707-7; 0-415-85918-2; 0-203-79874-0; 1-135-12700-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910790581003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Innovative ethnographies.