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* Winner: International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry Outstanding Book Award 2016 *
"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 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.
Contents
Prologue 1. The Shtetl Jedwabne - Sunrise, Sunset 2. Aftermaths - Delicate Memories 3. The Voyage Out - Routes 4. The Shopkeepers - Return 5. Young Man in Havana - The Power of Privilege 6. An American Soldier - The Lost Ones 7. In Love and War - Postwar 8. American Dreams/Dreaming in Cuban - Habitus 9. Dictators - The End of Empires 10. Cigarettes, Babies, and Change - Possession and Dispossession 11. Things Fall Apart - The Sacred and the Secular 12. Te Amamos Siempre, Paisano - The Story of My Story Epilogue Afterword: Out of the Shadows and Into the Present
