Book
The varieties of ethnic experience: kinship, class and gender among California Italian-Americans
Cornell University Press • Ithaca, New York • Published In 1984 • Pages: 262
By: Di Leonardo, Micaela.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This book uses a different approach to the study of ethnicity than that used by most social scientists. Di Leonardo assumes ethnic variety and attempts to understand it (p. 11). This work can be read at a number of different levels. Not only does it represent an anthropological case study, but it may be read for its historical and theoretical context as well. Although the focus of the study is on the Italian Americans of the San Francisco Bay area, it also has implications for an understanding of family, economy, culture and gender in American life in general, and of their complex links to the larger global economy (p. 13).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Observation in research
- Interviewing in research
- Life history materials
- External migration
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Labor supply and employment
- Labor relations
- Family relationships
- Ethnosociology
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Italian Americans
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Indigenous Person
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1992
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- No date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- San Francisco Bay area, Calif., United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Micaela di Leonardo
- Includes bibliography
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Italian Americans