Diamond Stories : : Enduring Change on 47th Street / / Renée Rose Shield.
Sequestered within the heart of a cosmopolitan city is an exotic world-a place where diamonds, astronomically priced, are bought and sold on the strength of a handshake, and business disputes are resolved according to ancient Jewish principles of arbitration. Yet it is also a modern industry facing...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©2005 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 15 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Diamonds, Jews, and the World
- 3. Being There
- 4. New York, Diamond Center
- 5. Million Dollar Handshakes
- 6. With Loupe and Internet
- 7. Diamonds, Families, and Time
- 8. The Courtly System of Arbitration
- 9. Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index