Janet Siskind
Biographic Data
| ID | 3617063 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Janet Siskind |
| GIVEN NAMES | Janet |
| FAMILY NAME | Siskind |
| SIGNATURE | SISKIND J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 123 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Rum & Axes
Rum and Axes
What exactly did New England's merchants and industrialists do? Janet Siskind's book provides an answer to this question by exploring Samuel Watkinson's family and its economic fortunes in early-nineteenth-century Connecticut. But this is no “rags to riches” tale. In 1795, when they arrived in Middletown, Connecticut, from Lavenham, England, the Watkinsons were already millionaires if measured by today's standards. Samuel, his wife, Sarah, and th…
The Invention of Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving was 'invented' in its present form at the end of the 19th century. Through the consummation of a sacred meal, a diverse collection of immigrants become the descendants of the Pilgrims. In every household that considers itself Amencan or desires to become American, Thanksgiving brings family members back home, ritually strengthening attenuated ties of kinship and investing the set of meanings incorporated in being an Amencan with the …
Class discourse in an early 19th-century New England factory
Boundaries of gender and class
Silverblatt, Irene. Moon, Sun, and Witches. Gender Ideologies and Class in Inca and Colonial Peru. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987. xxxiii + 266 pp. including bibliography and index. $39.50 cloth, $14.50 paper. Rubenstein, Roberta, ed. Boundaries of the Self: Gender, Culture, Fiction. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1987. ix + 256 pp. including bibliography and index. $24.95 cloth. Benería, Lourdes, and Martha Roldán. The Cro…
An Axe to Grind
In 19th-century New England textile mills and manufacturing industries produced new goods, new class relations, and new industrial environments that exposed workers to new or more widespread occupational diseases. The Collins Company of Connecticut, founded in 1826, was the first large axe manufacturer in the United States. The process of grinding the axes caused silicosis in many of the workers. An analysis of the documents that remain from the …
To hunt in the morning.
Ethnology
Kinship and Mode of Production
This article links the basic elements of kinship and marriage to the division of labor between the sexes. The concept of a mode of production is used to analyze the distinctive features of this organization of the labor process. These features include the categorization of persons by generation and sex and a specification of reciprocal rights and obligations. It is thus argued that kinship pertains to a particular form of production rather than t…
To hunt in the morning.
Kinship and Mode of Production
This article links the basic elements of kinship and marriage to the division of labor between the sexes. The concept of a mode of production is used to analyze the distinctive features of this organization of the labor process. These features include the categorization of persons by generation and sex and a specification of reciprocal rights and obligations. It is thus argued that kinship pertains to a particular form of production rather than t…
The Invention of Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving was 'invented' in its present form at the end of the 19th century. Through the consummation of a sacred meal, a diverse collection of immigrants become the descendants of the Pilgrims. In every household that considers itself Amencan or desires to become American, Thanksgiving brings family members back home, ritually strengthening attenuated ties of kinship and investing the set of meanings incorporated in being an Amencan with the …
Rum and Axes
What exactly did New England's merchants and industrialists do? Janet Siskind's book provides an answer to this question by exploring Samuel Watkinson's family and its economic fortunes in early-nineteenth-century Connecticut. But this is no “rags to riches” tale. In 1795, when they arrived in Middletown, Connecticut, from Lavenham, England, the Watkinsons were already millionaires if measured by today's standards. Samuel, his wife, Sarah, and th…
An Axe to Grind
In 19th-century New England textile mills and manufacturing industries produced new goods, new class relations, and new industrial environments that exposed workers to new or more widespread occupational diseases. The Collins Company of Connecticut, founded in 1826, was the first large axe manufacturer in the United States. The process of grinding the axes caused silicosis in many of the workers. An analysis of the documents that remain from the …
Kinship and Mode of Production
This article links the basic elements of kinship and marriage to the division of labor between the sexes. The concept of a mode of production is used to analyze the distinctive features of this organization of the labor process. These features include the categorization of persons by generation and sex and a specification of reciprocal rights and obligations. It is thus argued that kinship pertains to a particular form of production rather than t…
To hunt in the morning.
Ethnology
An Axe to Grind
In 19th-century New England textile mills and manufacturing industries produced new goods, new class relations, and new industrial environments that exposed workers to new or more widespread occupational diseases. The Collins Company of Connecticut, founded in 1826, was the first large axe manufacturer in the United States. The process of grinding the axes caused silicosis in many of the workers. An analysis of the documents that remain from the …
Class discourse in an early 19th-century New England factory
Boundaries of gender and class
Silverblatt, Irene. Moon, Sun, and Witches. Gender Ideologies and Class in Inca and Colonial Peru. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987. xxxiii + 266 pp. including bibliography and index. $39.50 cloth, $14.50 paper. Rubenstein, Roberta, ed. Boundaries of the Self: Gender, Culture, Fiction. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1987. ix + 256 pp. including bibliography and index. $24.95 cloth. Benería, Lourdes, and Martha Roldán. The Cro…
The Invention of Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving was 'invented' in its present form at the end of the 19th century. Through the consummation of a sacred meal, a diverse collection of immigrants become the descendants of the Pilgrims. In every household that considers itself Amencan or desires to become American, Thanksgiving brings family members back home, ritually strengthening attenuated ties of kinship and investing the set of meanings incorporated in being an Amencan with the …
Rum & Axes
Rum and Axes
What exactly did New England's merchants and industrialists do? Janet Siskind's book provides an answer to this question by exploring Samuel Watkinson's family and its economic fortunes in early-nineteenth-century Connecticut. But this is no “rags to riches” tale. In 1795, when they arrived in Middletown, Connecticut, from Lavenham, England, the Watkinsons were already millionaires if measured by today's standards. Samuel, his wife, Sarah, and th…
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