Diamond stories : enduring change on 47th Street / Renée Rose Shield.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Anthropology of contemporary issuesPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2002Copyright date: ©2002Description: xiii, 233 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780801472633
Subject(s): Online resources:
Contents:
Diamonds, Jews, and the world -- Being there -- New York, Diamond Center -- Million dollar handshakes -- With loupe and Internet -- Diamonds, families, and time -- The courtly system of arbitration.
Review: "In Diamond Stories, Renee Rose Shield leads us into the unexamined realm of wholesale diamond traders in New York. Related to several well-respected traders, she had unprecedented access to a society normally closed to outside inquiry. Here she deftly blends her personal relationship and her anthropological training to provide an insightful exploration of this tradition-bound industry, the new challenges it faces, and the ways both industry and individuals adapt to and endure change."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-227) and index.

Diamonds, Jews, and the world -- Being there -- New York, Diamond Center -- Million dollar handshakes -- With loupe and Internet -- Diamonds, families, and time -- The courtly system of arbitration.

"In Diamond Stories, Renee Rose Shield leads us into the unexamined realm of wholesale diamond traders in New York. Related to several well-respected traders, she had unprecedented access to a society normally closed to outside inquiry. Here she deftly blends her personal relationship and her anthropological training to provide an insightful exploration of this tradition-bound industry, the new challenges it faces, and the ways both industry and individuals adapt to and endure change."--BOOK JACKET.

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