- Summary
- "My Father's wars is an anthropologist's vivid account of her father's journey across continents, countries, cultures, generations, and wars. It is a daughter's moving portrait of a charming, funny, wounded and difficult man. And it is a scholar's reflection on the dramatic forces of history, the experience of exile and immigration, the legacies of culture, and the enduring power of memory. This book is for Anthropology and Sociology courses in qualitative methods, ethnography, violence, migration, and ethnicity" -- Provided by publisher.
""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"-- Provided by publisher.
- Series
- Innovative ethnographies
Innovative ethnographies.
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Waterston, Alisse, 1951- author.
- Published
- New York : Routledge, 2014
- Locale
- United States
Cuba
Jedwabne (Poland)
- Contents
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Acknowledgments
Prologue
Chapter 1
Shtetl Jedwabne
Sunrise, sunset
Chapter 2
Aftermaths
Delicate memories
Chapter 3
Voyage out
Routes
Chapter 4
Shipkeepers
Return
Chapter 5
Young man in Havana
Power of privilege
Chapter 6
An American soldier
Lost ones
Chapter 7
In love and war
Postwar
Chapter 8
American dreams/Dreaming in Cuba
Habitus
Chapter 9
Dictators
Ends of empires
Chapter 10
Cigarettes, babies and change
Possession and dispossession
Chapter 11
Things fall apart
Sacred and the secular
Chapter 12
Te amamos siempre, paisano
Story of my story
Epilogue
Notes
References
Index.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (page 171-181) and index.
Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Chapter 1 -- Shtetl Jedwabne -- Sunrise, sunset -- Chapter 2 -- Aftermaths -- Delicate memories -- Chapter 3 -- Voyage out -- Routes -- Chapter 4 -- Shipkeepers -- Return -- Chapter 5 -- Young man in Havana -- Power of privilege -- Chapter 6 -- An American soldier -- Lost ones -- Chapter 7 -- In love and war -- Postwar -- Chapter 8 -- American dreams/Dreaming in Cuba -- Habitus -- Chapter 9 -- Dictators -- Ends of empires -- Chapter 10 -- Cigarettes, babies and change -- Possession and dispossession -- Chapter 11 -- Things fall apart -- Sacred and the secular -- Chapter 12 -- Te amamos siempre, paisano -- Story of my story -- Epilogue -- Notes -- References -- Index.
