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| Identities and Urban Social Spaces in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles: Japanese Americans in Two Ethno-Spiritual Communities | ||
| 作者 | Smith, James M. (著) |
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| 出處題名 | Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography |
| 卷期 | v.90 n.4 |
| 出版日期 | 2008 |
| 頁次 | 389 - 408 |
| 出版者 | Taylor & Francis |
| 出版者網址 | http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals |
| 出版地 | Oxfordshire, UK [牛津郡, 英國] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 關鍵詞 | ethnic identities; ethno-spiritual communities; Japanese Americans; Los Angeles |
| 摘要 | Ethnic identities are expressed and articulated in particular places. These mutable identities are crucial sources of meaning in the lives of social actors. This article seeks to elucidate just how the contexts of specific institutions in an urban enclave will impact upon patterns of conflict and cooperation among different subgroups practising two religious traditions. Historical discourses of ethnic community and 'race', shifts in migration patterns and the changing nature of the Little Tokyo enclave provide the formative patterns of social spaces, in which ethnic actors seek to create lives of spiritual and material meaning and security. Barth's concept of the social organization of cultural difference encourages analysis of ethnic identities as a dynamic and mutable enterprise. Because the maintenance of boundaries is crucial to identities, the manner in which a group seeks to maintain difference is intermeshed with the social terrain of particular places. Through qualitative methods of semi-structured and informal interviews and participant observations, this project engages Japanese American identities within the context of two religious communities in an urban enclave. Fieldwork was conducted in two institutions, a Protestant church and a Buddhist temple, with the aim of exploring how Japanese American identities are expressed and (re)negotiated within different ethno-spiritual communities. Such communities are fundamental to the expression of ethnic identities, and to the emotional lives of worshippers, particularly seniors and new immigrants. |
| 目次 | Abstract 389 Introduction: ethnic identities and changing social spaces of religious institutions 389 Theoretical contexts: Barth and ethnic identities 390 Bourdieu and social spaces 391 Bourdieu: identities and agency in ethnic research 392 Integrating Barth and Bourdieu: theorizing ethno-spiritual communities 392 Methods 394 Urban ethnographies: data acquisition and social characteristics of informants 394 Justification for a qualitative approach 395 Little Tokyo 396 Institutions and identities in an urban enclave: narratives in two Japanese American ethno-spiritual communities 398 Shin Buddhist Temple 398 Elaine Hayashi 399 Grace Protestant Church 400 Darren Yamada 401 Discussion 402 Shifting social spaces of Shin Temple 402 Shifting social spaces in Grace Church 403 Comparative summary of spatial practices in Japanese American ethno- spiritual social spaces 405 Conclusions 406 Acknowledgement 407 Notes 407 References 407 |
| ISSN | 04353684 (P); 14680467 (E) |
| 點閱次數 | 268 |
| 建檔日期 | 2023.10.20 |
| 更新日期 | 2023.10.23 |
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