My Father's Wars

Alisse Waterston is Professor, Department of Anthropology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York. She is Editor, Open Anthropology, and President-elect, American Anthropological Association. Professor Waterston is author of two ethnographies on urban poverty in the US (Love, Sorrow and Rage: Destitute Women in a Manhattan Residence, and Street Addicts in the Political Economy), and of the edited volumes An Anthropology of War: Views from the Frontline and Anthropology off the Shelf: Anthropologists on Writing (co-edited with Maria D. Vesperi). Alisse Waterston is a Soros International Scholar affiliated with Tbilisi State University in Gender Studies, and serves on the Executive Board, American Anthropological Association.

Selected Table of Contents

1. The Shtetl Jedwabne / Sunrise, Sunset 2. Aftermaths / Delicate Memories 3. The Voyage Out / Routes 4. The Shopkeepers / Return 5. Young Man in Havana / The Power of Privilege 6. An American Soldier / The Lost Ones 7. In Love and War / Postwar 8. American Dreams Dreaming in Cuban / Habitus 9. Dictators / The Ends of Empires 10. Cigarettes, Babies, and Change / Possession and Dispossession 11. Things Fall Apart / The Sacred and the Secular 12. te amamos siempre, paisano / The Story of My Story