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Ethnology --- United States --- Race relations --- Ethnic relations --- Ethnology - United States --- United States - Race relations --- United States - Ethnic relations
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In Usable Pasts, fourteen authors examine the manipulation of traditional expressions among a variety of groups from the United States and Canada: the development of a pictorial style by Navajo weavers in response to traders, Mexican American responses to the appropriation of traditional foods by Anglos, the expressive forms of communication that engender and sustain a sense of community in an African American women's social club and among elderly Yiddish folksingers in Miami Beach, the incorporation of mass media images into the "C & Ts" (customs and traditions) of a Boy Scout troop, the changing meaning of their defining Exodus-like migration to Mormons, Newfoundlanders' appropriation through the rum-drinking ritual called the Schreech-In of outsiders' stereotypes, outsiders' imposition of the once-despised lobster as the emblem of Maine, the contest over Texas's heroic Alamo legend and its departures from historical fact, and how yellow ribbons were transformed from an image in a pop song to a national symbol of "resolve."
Ethnology - Canada. --- Ethnology -- Canada. --- Ethnology - United States. --- Ethnology -- United States. --- Minorities -- Canada -- Social life and customs. --- Minorities - Canada - Social life and customs. --- Minorities -- United States -- Social life and customs. --- Minorities - United States - Social life and customs. --- Minorities --- Ethnology --- Ethnic & Race Studies --- Gender & Ethnic Studies --- Social Sciences --- Social life and customs --- Social life and customs. --- Ethnic minorities --- Foreign population --- Minority groups --- Persons --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Discrimination --- Ethnic relations --- Majorities --- Plebiscite --- Race relations --- Segregation --- social life and customs. --- North America
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This is a story of how work gets done. It is also a study of how field service technicians talk about their work and how that talk is instrumental in their success. In his innovative ethnography, Julian E. Orr studies the people who repair photocopiers and shares vignettes from their daily lives. He characterizes their work as a continuous highly skilled improvisation within a triangular relationship of technician, customer, and machine. The work technicians do encompasses elements not contained in the official definition of the job yet vital to its success. Orr's analysis of the way repair people talk about their work reveals that talk is, in fact, a crucial dimension of their practice. Diagnosis happens through a narrative process, the creation of a coherent description of the troubled machine. The descriptions become the basis for technicians' discourse about their experience, and the circulation of stories among the technicians is the principal means by which they stay informed of the developing subtleties of machine behavior. Orr demonstrates that technical knowledge is a socially distributed resource stored and diffused primarily through an oral culture. Based on participant observation with copier repair technicians in the field and strengthened by Orr's own years as a technician, this book explodes numerous myths about technicians and suggests how technical work differs from other kinds of employment.
E-books --- Photocopying machines --- Mechanics --- Ethnology --- Maintenance and repair --- Xerox Corporation --- Customer services. --- United States --- Customer services --- Classical mechanics --- Newtonian mechanics --- Physics --- Dynamics --- Quantum theory --- Photocopiers --- Copying machines --- Maintenance and repair. --- Haloid Xerox, Inc. --- Mechanical engineering --- Business anthropology --- Génie mécanique --- Photocopieurs --- Affaires --- Entretien et réparation --- Aspect anthropologique --- Photocopying machines - United States - Maintenance and repair --- Mechanics - United States --- Ethnology - United States
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What is it like to become an adult in twenty-first-century America? This book takes us to four very different places-New York City, San Diego, rural Iowa, and Saint Paul, Minnesota-to explore the dramatic shifts in coming-of-age experiences across the country. Drawing from in-depth interviews with people in their twenties and early thirties, it probes experiences and decisions surrounding education, work, marriage, parenthood, and housing. The first study to systematically explore this phenomenon from a qualitative perspective, Coming of Age in America offers a clear view of how traditional patterns and expectations are changing, of the range of forces that are shaping these changes, and of how young people themselves view their lives.
Adolescence - United States - History - 21st century. --- Adolescence -- United States -- History -- 21st century. --- Ethnology - United States. --- Ethnology -- United States. --- Parent and teenager - United States. --- Parent and teenager -- United States. --- Social classes - United States. --- Social classes -- United States. --- Adolescence --- Parent and teenager --- Ethnology --- Social classes --- Social Welfare & Social Work --- Social Sciences --- Child & Youth Development --- Teen-age --- Teenagers --- Puberty --- History --- Development --- 21st century adult. --- adulting. --- american youth. --- becoming an adult. --- bildungsroman. --- books for young adults. --- buying first house. --- early adult housing. --- education. --- family. --- first job. --- graduation gifts. --- growing up. --- guide to adulthood. --- guide to your thirties. --- guide to your twenties. --- how to adult. --- life after college. --- life in your thirties. --- life in your twenties. --- living in new york city. --- living in san diego. --- navigating adulthood. --- nyc life. --- work and education. --- work and marriage. --- work life balance. --- young adult self help. --- young parenthood.
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C'est l'hiver et la température avoisine les moins quarante degrés. Les yeux levés vers les aurores boréales qui animent le ciel arctique, nous écoutons. Le chasseur commence à siffler dans leur direction. C'est un son continu, aigu mais contenu, qui résonne dans le silence de la nuit polaire. Qui appelles-tu ? Elles, les aurores, et ceux qui transitent avec elles, les esprits des disparus, des hommes, des animaux, des plantes, qui courent sur un ciel glacial dans les explosions de couleurs. Qui sont ces hommes qui se nomment eux-mêmes les Gwich'in et peuplent les forêts subarctiques ? Sont-ils encore de fiers guerriers qui poursuivent les caribous jusque sur l'échine arctique de la Terre, ou ressemblent-ils plutôt à des humains dévastés par la colonisation occidentale qui titubent dans les rues verglacées des villes du Nord sous les effets de l'alcool ? Et que dire du territoire qu'ils habitent, l'Alaska contemporaine ? Cette terre demeure-t-elle fidèle aux images de nature sublime et préservée qui peuplent nos esprits d'Occidentaux, ou disparaît-elle face aux réalités énergétiques, politiques et économiques qui la transforment en un champ de bataille jonché de mines à ciel ouvert et d'exploitations pétrolières ? À l'heure du réchauffement climatique, aucun de ces clivages ne subsiste. Les mutations écologiques du Grand Nord sont telles qu'elles brouillent le sens commun et balayent toutes les tentatives de stabilisation, de normalisation et d'administration des écosystèmes arctiques et de leurs habitants. Loin de toute folklorisation indigéniste et de tout manifeste écologiste, ce livre s'attache à retranscrire les réalités des hommes qui parlent encore à l'ombre des arbres et sous le sceau de leur secret. Les âmes sauvages de l'Alaska sont celles qui se meuvent dans les plis d'un monde en révolution, et qui font de la métamorphose continuelle des choses et de l'incertitude des êtres un mode d'existence à part entière
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