American Culture

Essays on the Familiar and Unfamiliar

Buch | Softcover

314 Seiten

1990
University of Pittsburgh Press (Verlag)
978-0-8229-6092-8 (ISBN)

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American Culture comprises fifteen essays looking at the familiar and the less familiar in American society: urbanites in Pittsburgh and Indianapolis, rural communities in the American West, Hispanics in Wisconsin, Samoans in California, the Amish, and the utopian religious communities of the Shakers and Oneida. The essays address a wide range of topics and a spectrum of occupations-miners, whalers, farmers, factory workers, physicians and nurses-to consider such questions as why some religious sects remain distinctive, separate, and viable; how groups use of such things as nicknames and family reunions to maintain ties within the community; how immigrant communities organize to sustain traditional cultural activities.

Leonard Plotnicov was professor of anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh and editor of the journal Ethnology.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.12.1990
Verlagsort	Pittsburgh PA
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-8229-6092-3 / 0822960923
ISBN-13	978-0-8229-6092-8 / 9780822960928
Zustand	Neuware