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Diamond Stories
Sequestered within the heart of a cosmopolitan city is an exotic world--a place where diamonds, astronomically priced, are bought and sold on the strength of a handshake, and business disputes are resolved according to ancient Jewish principles of arbitration. Yet it is also a modern industry facing the same fundamental global changes affecting all businesses today.In Diamond Stories, Renée Rose Shield leads us into the unexamined realm of wholesale diamond traders in New York. Related to several well-respected traders, she had unprecedented access to a society normally closed to outside inquiry. Here she deftly blends her personal relationship and her anthropological training to provide an...
Diamond Stories
Renee Rose Shield leads us into the unexamined realm of wholesale diamond traders in New York. Deftly blending her personal insights and her anthropological training, she provides a fascinating exploration of this tradition-bound industry, the new challenges it faces, and the ways both industry and individuals adapt to and endure change. Shields gained entrance into New York's diamond trade through her Uncles Moishe and Shmiel, who worked there for many decades and had a good reputation. "This book illustrates how trust, energy, skill, excitement, and fun bring job satisfaction to difficult, tedious, and anxiety-producing tasks." Photos.
Diamond Stories
Sequestered within the heart of a cosmopolitan city is an exotic world—a place where diamonds, astronomically priced, are bought and sold on the strength of a handshake, and business disputes are resolved according to ancient Jewish principles of arbitration. Yet it is also a modern industry facing the same fundamental global changes affecting all businesses today.In Diamond Stories, Renée Rose Shield leads us into the unexamined realm of wholesale diamond traders in New York. Related to several well-respected traders, she had unprecedented access to a society normally closed to outside inquiry. Here she deftly blends her personal relationship and her anthropological training to provide a...
Handbook of Theories of Aging, Second Edition
The field of gerontology has often been criticized for being "data-rich but theory-poor." The editors of this book address this issue by stressing the importance of theory in gerontology. While the previous edition focused on multidisciplinary approaches to aging theory, this new edition provides cross-disciplinary, integrative explanations of aging theory: The contributors of this text have reached beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries to partner with researchers in adjacent fields in studying aging and age-related phenomena. This edition of the Handbook consists of 39 chapters written by 67 internationally recognized experts in the field of aging. It is organized in seven sections, re...
City of Green Benches
In City of Green Benches, Vesperi combines the ear of a journalist, recording scores of conversations with elderly residents, with the eye of an anthropologist, trying to understand how people's self-esteem and self-perception are transformed in the process of social change. In this contribution to gerontology theory, Vesperi examines the cultural construction of old age in American society and its impact on the self-concept of the aged.
Emerald City
A fascinating study of the gemstone industry of Jaipur with special emphasis on its ownership class.
Medicalizing Ethnicity
In Medicalizing Ethnicity, Vilma Santiago-Irizarry shows how commendable intentions can produce unintended consequences. Santiago-Irizarry conducted ethnographic fieldwork in three bilingual, bicultural psychiatric programs for Latino patients at public mental health facilities in New York City. The introduction of "cultural sensitivity" in mental health clinics, she concludes, led doctors to construct essentialized, composite versions of Latino ethnicity in their drive to treat mental illness with sensitivity. The author demonstrates that stressing Latino differences when dealing with patients resulted not in empowerment, as intended, but in the reassertion of Anglo-American standards of be...
Hispanas de Queens
Part I. Neighborhood life and experiential Latino panethnicity -- Introducing Corona -- Women and convivencia diaria -- Stores, workplaces, and public space -- Roman Catholic parishes -- Protestant churches -- Part II. Female leadership and institutional Latino panethnicity -- Introducing Latino organizations in Queens -- Social service organizations -- Cultural politics -- Formal politics -- Conclusion : Women and the creation of Latino panethnicity.
Lord I'm Coming Home
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