American Culture: Essays on the Familiar and Unfamiliar - Leonard Plotnicov - Paperback

American Culturecomprises fifteen essays looking at the familiar and the less familiar in American society: urbanites in Pittsburgh and Indianapolis, rural communities in the American West, Hispanics in Wisconsin, Samoans in California, the Amish, and the utopian religious communities of the Shakers and Oneida. The essays address a wide range of topics and a spectrum of occupations-miners, whalers, farmers, factory workers, physicians and nurses-to consider such questions as why some religious sects remain distinctive, separate, and viable; how groups use of such things as nicknames and family reunions to maintain ties within the community; how immigrant communities organize to sustain traditional cultural activities.Plotnicov, Leonard is the author of 'American Culture: Essays on the Familiar and Unfamiliar - Leonard Plotnicov - Paperback' with ISBN 9780822960928 and ISBN 0822960923.