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Encounters with American ethnic cultures /

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Kilbride, Philip Leroy, Goodale, Jane C. (Jane Carter), 1926-2008, Ameisen, Elizabeth R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, ©1990.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xiii, 367 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 340-359) and index.
ISBN:0585140928
9780585140926
9780817383756
0817383751