Transforming the Past: Tradition and Kinship Among Japanese Americans
by Sylvia Junko Yanagisako
Rating
LanguageEN
Total Pages300 pages
ISBN
9780804720175
Published
1985
Description
This book is at once a cultural history of Japanese American kinship and a contribution to the study of the contemporary kinship system of the United States. It brings to the analysis of American kinship a theoretical pe...This book is at once a cultural history of Japanese American kinship and a contribution to the study of the contemporary kinship system of the United States. It brings to the analysis of American kinship a theoretical perspective that attends to the historical fictionly situated, symbolic processes through which people interpret and thereby transform their kinship relations.
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