My Father's Wars

“My father was born into war,” begins this remarkable saga in Alisse Waterston’s intimate ethnography, a story that is also twentieth-century social history. This book is for Anthropology and Sociology courses in qualitative methods, ethnography, violence, migration, and ethnicity.

* Winner: International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry Outstanding Book Award 2016 *

My father was born into war, begins this remarkable saga in Alisse Waterstons intimate ethnography, a story that is also twentieth-century social history. This is an anthropologists vivid account of her fathers journey across continents, countries, cultures, languages, generationsand wars. It is a daughters moving portrait of a charming, funny, wounded, and difficult man, his relationships with those he loved, and his most sacred of beliefs. And it is a scholars reflection on the dramatic forces of history, the experience of exile and immigration, the legacies of culture, and the enduring power of memory. This book is for Anthropology and Sociology courses in qualitative methods, ethnography, violence, migration, and ethnicity.

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