Amy E Rowe
Biographic Data
| ID | 206830 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amy E Rowe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amy E |
| FAMILY NAME | Rowe |
| SIGNATURE | ROWE A E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute for Global Engagement |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Nelia HYNDMAN-Rizk, My Mother’s Table
This anthropological study of Maronite Christian emigrants from the village of Hadchit in North Lebanon is primarily concerned with the nuanced ways in which the migrants and their descendants in Australia understand "home."Hyndman-Rizk argues that through women's practices of care, acutely symbolized when gathered around the mother's table, emigrants establish a sense of homeliness that was previously fixated on a specific place: the land and in…
Mint Grows Through the Cracks in the Foundation
With an ethnographic focus on descendants of Lebanese migrants in the U.S.A., this paper examines what ethnic foods means for people who consider themselves to be “assimilated” into the American white, middle-class mainstream, and who are eager to remain accepted as unhyphenated Americans, as neither Lebanese-American nor Arab-American. The paper traces their food practices and analyzes how they use food within kinship networks to honour ancestor…
Recommended Books for the Really New Internationalists
This essay recommends both realistic and fantastic books helpful for conveying international themes to children. The story in which modern children find themselves is one of global interconnectedness, religious and ethnic diversity, rapidly changing institutions, vast economic disparities, and humanitarian crises. For pre-rational children, the illustrations, rich details, and fantastic elements of storybooks are crucial means of developing under…
Divine Comedy
A review of: Jay Wexler, Holy Hullabaloos: A Road Trip to the Battlegrounds of the Church/State Wars (Boston: Beacon Press, 2009). 272pp. $20.00
A Lost Boy Tells Sudan's Story
A review of: Dave Eggers, What is the What (San Francisco: McSweeney's, 2006). 475pp. $26.00. What is the What is a fictionalized biography of Achak, one of the Sudanese “Lost Boys” who moved from one refugee camp to another during the 1980s. Achak's observations of the actors in the Sudanese civil war challenge traditional American evangelical activist conceptions of that conflict. Achak's story also examines what it means to exist, suffer, and …
Mint Grows Through the Cracks in the Foundation
With an ethnographic focus on descendants of Lebanese migrants in the U.S.A., this paper examines what ethnic foods means for people who consider themselves to be “assimilated” into the American white, middle-class mainstream, and who are eager to remain accepted as unhyphenated Americans, as neither Lebanese-American nor Arab-American. The paper traces their food practices and analyzes how they use food within kinship networks to honour ancestor…
A Lost Boy Tells Sudan's Story
A review of: Dave Eggers, What is the What (San Francisco: McSweeney's, 2006). 475pp. $26.00. What is the What is a fictionalized biography of Achak, one of the Sudanese “Lost Boys” who moved from one refugee camp to another during the 1980s. Achak's observations of the actors in the Sudanese civil war challenge traditional American evangelical activist conceptions of that conflict. Achak's story also examines what it means to exist, suffer, and …
Divine Comedy
A review of: Jay Wexler, Holy Hullabaloos: A Road Trip to the Battlegrounds of the Church/State Wars (Boston: Beacon Press, 2009). 272pp. $20.00
Recommended Books for the Really New Internationalists
This essay recommends both realistic and fantastic books helpful for conveying international themes to children. The story in which modern children find themselves is one of global interconnectedness, religious and ethnic diversity, rapidly changing institutions, vast economic disparities, and humanitarian crises. For pre-rational children, the illustrations, rich details, and fantastic elements of storybooks are crucial means of developing under…
Mint Grows Through the Cracks in the Foundation
With an ethnographic focus on descendants of Lebanese migrants in the U.S.A., this paper examines what ethnic foods means for people who consider themselves to be “assimilated” into the American white, middle-class mainstream, and who are eager to remain accepted as unhyphenated Americans, as neither Lebanese-American nor Arab-American. The paper traces their food practices and analyzes how they use food within kinship networks to honour ancestor…
Nelia HYNDMAN-Rizk, My Mother’s Table
This anthropological study of Maronite Christian emigrants from the village of Hadchit in North Lebanon is primarily concerned with the nuanced ways in which the migrants and their descendants in Australia understand "home."Hyndman-Rizk argues that through women's practices of care, acutely symbolized when gathered around the mother's table, emigrants establish a sense of homeliness that was previously fixated on a specific place: the land and in…
Sociology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Diaspora (2 works)