Research Catalog

Title

Rebuilding shattered worlds : creating community by voicing the past / Andrea L. Smith and Anna Eisenstein.

Author

Smith, Andrea L.

Publication

Lincoln ; London : University of Nebraska Press, [2016]

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Details

Additional Authors

Eisenstein, Anna

Description

xiii, 190 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

• "Rebuilding Shattered Worlds explores the ways a demolished neighborhood in Easton, Pennsylvania, still resonates in the imaginations of displaced residents. Drawing on six years of ethnographic research, the authors highlight the intersecting languages of blight, race, and place as elderly interlocutors attempt to make sense of the world they lost when urban renewal initiatives razed "Syrian Town"--a densely packed neighborhood of Lebanese American, Italian American, and African American residents. This ethnography of remembering shows how former residents engage collective memory-making through their shared place, language, and class position within the larger cityscape. Demonstrating the creative power of linguistic resources, material traces, and absent spaces, Rebuilding Shattered Worlds brings together insights from linguistic anthropology and material studies, foregrounding the role language plays in signaling "pastness.""--
• "An ethnography of the ways displaced residents remember the ethnic diversity of their neighborhood in a small city in eastern Pennsylvania destroyed in the name of urban renewal, where memories, linguistic patterns, and material artifacts continue to animate people's everyday lives"--

Series Statement

Anthropology of contemporary North America

Uniform Title

Anthropology of contemporary North America.

Subjects

• Easton (Northampton County, Pa.) > Social conditions
• Anthropological linguistics > Pennsylvania > Easton (Northampton County)
• Urban renewal > Social aspects > Pennsylvania > Easton (Northampton County)
• Collective memory > Pennsylvania > Easton (Northampton County)
• Easton (Northampton County, Pa.) > Ethnic relations

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-181) and index.

Call Number

JFE 16-11423

ISBN

• 9780803290587 (paperback)
• 0803290586 (paperback)

LCCN

2016022199

OCLC

946906348

Author

Smith, Andrea L., author.

Title

Rebuilding shattered worlds : creating community by voicing the past / Andrea L. Smith and Anna Eisenstein.

Publisher

Lincoln ; London : University of Nebraska Press, [2016]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Anthropology of contemporary North America

Anthropology of contemporary North America.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-181) and index.

Added Author

Eisenstein, Anna, author.

Research Call Number

JFE 16-11423