Andrew Shryock
Autor von Deep History: The Architecture of Past and Present
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Andrew Shryock is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Nationalism and the Genealogical Imagination: Oral History and Textual Authority in Tribal Jordan (UC Press), winner of the Middle Eastern Studies Association's Albert Hourani Award, among other mehr anzeigen books. Daniel Lord Small is Professor of History at Harvard University. Among his books is On Deep History and the Brain (UC Press), a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Science and Technology. weniger anzeigen
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Deep History: The Architecture of Past and Present (2011) — Herausgeber; Mitwirkender — 77 Exemplare
Nationalism and the Genealogical Imagination: Oral History and Textual Authority in Tribal Jordan (Comparative Studies… (1997) 18 Exemplare
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I want to just give a few of my own stories from having lived in Detroit for 18 years. When my wife and I decided to change churches in 1990, we discoverd the diversity of Christ Episcopal Church in downtown Detroit. The bedrock of this parish were the Syrian Arab Christian who came to Detroit around 1912 without a priest. So, they developed a quasi and then a real home at Christ Church. By the time we arrived, we could see that they were the bedrock of this parish who kept it going when other had left.
My wife and I for a short while were part of a lay trialogue group, the Greater Detroit Interfaith Council of Christians, Muslims, and Jews. This was enriching and, in fact,a bit emotional as we observed the falling apart of the former Yugoslavia a it dissolved from an uneasy perhaps cordiality between its religions and nationalities into civil war.
Detroit is evenly divided among its Middles Easter population between Sunnis and Shi'ites, and it was interesting to observe. Detroit does have 3rd generation Muslims, who are very much like other 3rd generation people in the U.S.. Our workplaces always Arab Americans, and we saw marriages and conversions happening.
Detroit needs to be recognized for adapted it has been and this book gives a good look at that story.… (mehr)