Rebuilding Shattered Worlds - Creating Community By Voicing the Past

Informationen zum Autor Andrea L. Smith is a professor of anthropology at Lafayette College, the author of Colonial Memory and Postcolonial Europe: Maltese Settlers in Algeria and France, and the editor of Europe’s Invisible Migrants: Consequences of the Colonists’ Return. Anna Eisenstein is a doctoral candidate in the department of anthropology at the University of Virginia. Klappentext Andrea L. Smith is a professor of anthropology at Lafayette College, the author of Colonial Memory and Postcolonial Europe: Maltese Settlers in Algeria and France, and the editor of Europe’s Invisible Migrants: Consequences of the Colonists’ Return. Anna Eisenstein is a doctoral candidate in the department of anthropology at the University of Virginia. Zusammenfassung "An ethnography of the ways displaced residents remember the ethnic diversity of their neighborhood in a small city in eastern Pennsylvania destroyed in the name of urban renewal! where memories! linguistic patterns! and material artifacts continue to animate people's everyday lives"-- Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations                                         Acknowledgments                                          Terminology and Transcription Conventions            1. Ethnography of the Expelled                     2. The Language of Blight                             3. Narrating Diversity                                     4. Voices from the Past                                  5. The Material of Memory                            6. Nostalgia as Engine of Change                  Notes Bibliography  Index

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• Authors: Anna Eisenstein, A Lynn Smith, A. Lynn Smith, A. Lynn Eisenstein Smith, Andrea L. Smith, Andrea L. Eisenstein Smith
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2016
• EAN: 9780803290587
• ISBN: 978-0-8032-9058-7
• No. of pages: 210
• Series: Anthropology of Contemporary N; Anthropology of Contemporary North America; Anthropology of Contemporary N
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology