Sephardic Jews trace their origins to Spain and Portugal. They have contributed some of the most important Jewish philosophers, poets, biblical commentators, and scientists, and have had a significant impact on the development of Jewish mysticism. This book presents an introductory overview of their history and culture over the past 1500 years.
The six articles in this trenchant issue of American Behavioral Scientist showcase how memory has been perceived by society throughout time. Why is memory important, especially at this point in history? As this issue demonstrates, "social," "collective," and even "traumatic" memories are significant building blocks in the rise and fall of nations, communities, politics and culture. Electronic, surveillance, digital, and biological technologies today offer new forms of memory (what the editor has dubbed "commodity" memory) that challenge our concepts of individuality and privacy. The diverse articles analyze important topics including: Historical analysis of collective memory, and how it influenced later concepts of a social construction of reality (Packard and Chen) How collective memory is and is not a factor in democratic nation building (Misztal) True and false repressed child sexual abuse memories (Hall and Kondora) Methodology and personal insights regarding writing and talking about cult-ritual and family abuse memories(Pepinsky) Surveillance in America(Produced by FLASHPOINTS, KPFA 94.5 FM, Pacifica Radio) How historical social collective memory is being preserved in electronic form (Stepinsky) This issue of American Behavioral Scientist aims to improve the language, theory, and analytical methods of describing public and private memories, and should be included in every sociology library!
Blacks, Hispanics, and Asians represent three of every four immigrants who arrived in the United States after 1970. In Other Immigrants, David M. Reimers offers a comprehensive account of non- European immigration, chronicling the stories of frequently overlooked Americans.
Blacks, Hispanics, and Asians represent three of every four immigrants who arrived in the United States after 1970. In Other Immigrants, David M. Reimers offers a comprehensive account of non- European immigration, chronicling the stories of frequently overlooked Americans.
As budgets tighten and costs increase, it is becoming even more necessary that workable social programmes are shown to be worthy of support. This book presents one approach to evaluation -- multiattribute utility technology -- which stresses that evaluations should be comparative, and that all the different constituencies served by a programme and its different goals have to be kept in mind.
The Plateau region of the Pacific Northwest witnessed the emergence, persistence, and decline of a diverse array of hunter-gatherer communities during the course of a past several thousand year period. Consequently, the region contains an archaeological record of groups who lived at times in permanent villages, employed complex resource ......
American Deaf Cultural History, 1900 to World War II
The author demonstrates that in 19th and 20th centuries and contrary to popular belief, the Deaf community defended its use of sign language as a distinctive form of communication, thus forming a collective Deaf consciousness, identity, and political organization.
Writing from a Native American perspective, theologian Tinker probes American Indian culture, its vast religious and cultural legacy, and its ambiguous relationship to the tradition--historic Christianity--that colonized and converted it. He offers novel proposals about cultural survival and identity, sustainability, and the endangered health of ......
