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106 books match the query 'Customs & Traditions' and 2 start with b
Between Foreign and Family
Return Migration and Identity Construction among Korean Americans and Korean ChineseLee, Helene K
Rutgers University Press, 2018
Winner of the 2019 ASA Book Award - Asia/Asian-American Section
Between Foreign and Family explores the impact of inconsistent rules of ethnic inclusion and exclusion on the economic and social lives of Korean Americans and Korean Chinese living in Seoul. These actors are part of a growing number of return migrants, members of an ethnic diaspora who migrate “back” to the ancestral homeland from which their families emigrated. Drawing on ethnographic observations and interview data, Helene K. Lee highlights the “logics of transnationalism” that shape the relationships between these return migrants and their employers, co-workers, friends, family, and the South Korean state.
While Koreanness marks these return migrants as outsiders who never truly feel at home in the United States and China, it simultaneously traps them into a liminal space in which they are neither fully family, nor fully foreign in South Korea. Return migration reveals how ethnic identity construction is not an indisputable and universal fact defined by blood and ancestry, but a contested and uneven process informed by the interplay of ethnicity, nationality, citizenship, gender, and history.
Between Foreign and Family explores the impact of inconsistent rules of ethnic inclusion and exclusion on the economic and social lives of Korean Americans and Korean Chinese living in Seoul. These actors are part of a growing number of return migrants, members of an ethnic diaspora who migrate “back” to the ancestral homeland from which their families emigrated. Drawing on ethnographic observations and interview data, Helene K. Lee highlights the “logics of transnationalism” that shape the relationships between these return migrants and their employers, co-workers, friends, family, and the South Korean state.
While Koreanness marks these return migrants as outsiders who never truly feel at home in the United States and China, it simultaneously traps them into a liminal space in which they are neither fully family, nor fully foreign in South Korea. Return migration reveals how ethnic identity construction is not an indisputable and universal fact defined by blood and ancestry, but a contested and uneven process informed by the interplay of ethnicity, nationality, citizenship, gender, and history.
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Book of Healing
Joseph Odùmósù
University of Wisconsin Press, 2026
The first book-length study of Yorùbá therapeutics, encompassing thousands of remedies for more than 160 different ailments, Ìwé Ìwòsàn (Book of Healing) was originally published in 1910 by Ìjẹ̀bú healer, politician, and public intellectual Joseph Odùmósù. Much of the scholarship on African healing cultures has been reconstructed from unwritten sources and texts produced by missionaries, colonial officials, and anthropologists. Of the small number of firsthand accounts in African languages (beyond Arabic) that have survived in written form, Odùmósù’s is the most extensive and encyclopedic.
While the existence of Odùmósù’s massive work is well-known in southwestern Nigeria, it has not previously been available in English. Michael Ọládẹ̀jọ Afọláyan and Helen Tilley have translated the volume in its entirety, and here use it as an entrée into greater understandings of Yorùbá medicine, spirituality, and print culture during a time of rapid change under British colonialism and the spread of Christianity.
While the existence of Odùmósù’s massive work is well-known in southwestern Nigeria, it has not previously been available in English. Michael Ọládẹ̀jọ Afọláyan and Helen Tilley have translated the volume in its entirety, and here use it as an entrée into greater understandings of Yorùbá medicine, spirituality, and print culture during a time of rapid change under British colonialism and the spread of Christianity.
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