Diamond stories : enduring change on 47th Street / Renée Rose Shield.
Material type: TextSeries: Anthropology of contemporary issuesPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2002Copyright date: ©2002Description: xiii, 233 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780801472633
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Books | Jost Bürgi Library Reading Room | HD9677.U53 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31560000007696 |
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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