ISBN:
9780817383756
,
0817383751
,
0585140928
,
9780585140926
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xiii, 367 p.)
,
ill.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Encounters with American ethnic cultures
DDC:
305.800974811
Keywords:
Ethnicity Pennsylvania
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Philadelphia Region
;
Minorities Pennsylvania
;
Philadelphia Region
;
Ethnicity
;
Minorities
;
Minorities
;
Ethnicity
;
Ethnic relations
;
Ethnicity
;
Manners and customs
;
Minorities
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies
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Philadelphia Region (Pa.) Social life and customs
;
Philadelphia Region (Pa.) Ethnic relations
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Pennsylvania
;
Philadelphia Region
;
Philadelphia Region (Pa.) Ethnic relations
;
Philadelphia Region (Pa.) Social life and customs
;
Philadelphia Region (Pa.) Ethnic relations
;
Philadelphia Region (Pa.) Social life and customs
;
Pennsylvania ; Philadelphia Region
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
pt. 1. Black and WASP in American cultural experience -- pt. 2. Self-chosen ethnicity -- pt. 3. Interpretations of gender and ethnicity -- pt. 4. Ethnicity and religion -- pt. 5. Dislocation and ethnicity.
Description / Table of Contents:
pt. 1. Black and WASP in American cultural experiencept. 2. Self-chosen ethnicity -- pt. 3. Interpretations of gender and ethnicity -- pt. 4. Ethnicity and religion -- pt. 5. Dislocation and ethnicity.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [340]-359) and index. - Description based on print version record
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