From Another Place

Klappentext This book explores definitions and understandings of the relations between migration and cultural processes. Zusammenfassung This book explores definitions and understandings of the relations between migration and cultural processes! calling into question the interrelation between circumstance and cultural practice. It focuses on class! gender! ethnicity! and identity in non-English speakers in Australia especially its Greek community. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface and acknowledgements; Part I. Migration Studies and the Problem of Culture: 1. Migrations and cultural analyses: a point of departure; 2. Comparative studies of migration, ethnicity, 'race' and culture in the USA and Britain; 3. Traditions, structures and culture as process; Part II. Practising Cultures: 4. The politics and poetics of ethnicity; 5. Dance, music and relations of power; 6. Re-negotiating 'tradition': the case of dowry; Part III. Constructing Identities: Gender, Class and Ethnos: 7. The cultural construction of gender in modern Greece; 8. Generating identities: age, social bodies and habitus; 9. Intersections: gender, ethnicity, class and culture in Australia; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Gillian Bottomley, Bottomley Gillian, Bottomley Gillian
• Publisher: External catalogues UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.03.2010
• EAN: 9780521125741
• ISBN: 978-0-521-12574-1
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Migration, immigration & emigration, Migration, immigration and emigration, Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples