Encounters with American ethnic cultures / edited by Philip L. Kilbride, Jane C. Goodale, Elizabeth R. Ameisen in collaboration with Carolyn G. Friedman.
Encounters with American Ethnic Cultures represents a cultural approach to understanding ethnic diversity in the Philadelphia metropolitan area. Thirteen chapters, each using an ethnographic field methodology, explore such ethnic experience as the "invisible" (WASPS and African-Americans);...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Tuscaloosa, Ala. :
University of Alabama Press,
©1990.
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| Summary: | Encounters with American Ethnic Cultures represents a cultural approach to understanding ethnic diversity in the Philadelphia metropolitan area. Thirteen chapters, each using an ethnographic field methodology, explore such ethnic experience as the "invisible" (WASPS and African-Americans); "self-chosen" (Welsh-American, Irish-American, and Ukrainian-American); "gender-related" (the Lubovitcher); "religious" (Jewish, Native American, Greek-American, and Puerto Rican); and "dislocated" (Cambodians and the homeless). Ethnographic fieldwork focuses an insider's view on the meaning of ethnic ex. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 367 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 340-359) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0585140928 9780585140926 9780817383756 0817383751 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |