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Author : Richard Gabriel Fox
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Urban Anthropology written by Richard Gabriel Fox and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1977 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Setha M. Low
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813527208
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Theorizing the City written by Setha M. Low and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthropological perspective are not often represented in urban studies, even though many anthropologist have been contributing actively to theory and research on urban poverty, racism, globalization, and architecture. Theorizing the City corrects this omission. Following a brief history of urban anthropology, emphasizing developments in the field during the 1990s, this volume presents twelve ethnographies of major cities in the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Europe. Five images of the city-the divided city, the contested city, the global city, the modernist city, and the postmodern city-serve as frameworks for the essays. Each section highlights current research trends such as poststructural studies of race, class and gender in the urban context; political economic studies of transnational culture; and studies of the symbolic meanings and social production of urban spaces.
Author : Donald M. Nonini
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118378652
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (183 download)
Download or read book A Companion to Urban Anthropology written by Donald M. Nonini and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-03-17 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Urban Anthropology BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO ANTHROPOLOGY A Companion to Urban Anthropology “The city is becoming the basic currency of human – and non-human – life: a pile of interconnections which makes a series of difficult wholes. This volume navigates the anthropology of this medium with the greatest aplomb.” Nigel Thrift, University of Warwick A Companion to Urban Anthropology presents original essays on central concepts in urban anthropology and ethnography. Featuring contributions from more than 25 leading international scholars in urban studies, the readings cover a wide variety of topics. Each essay explores a key phenomenon and is grounded in the author’s original research along with findings of other urbanists. Classic issues such as built structures and urban planning, community, markets, and race lead to emergent areas of study including borders, sexualities, nature, extralegality, and resilience and sustainability. A Companion to Urban Anthropology offers revealing insights into the complex forces that continue to shape the urban experience.
Author : Leith Mullings
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231050012
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Cities of the United States written by Leith Mullings and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Utilizing the strengths of traditional ethnographic approaches, the authors of this provocative volume of original essays analyze contemporary urban problems in the United States.
Author : Rivke Jaffe
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317363981
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Introducing Urban Anthropology written by Rivke Jaffe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-30 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an up-to-date introduction to the important and growing field of urban anthropology. This is an increasingly critical area of study, as more than half of the world's population now lives in cities and anthropological research is increasingly done in an urban context. Exploring contemporary anthropological approaches to the urban, the authors consider: How can we define urban anthropology? What are the main themes of twenty-first century urban anthropological research? What are the possible future directions in the field? The chapters cover topics such as urban mobilities, place-making and public space, production and consumption, politics and governance. These are illustrated by lively case studies drawn from a diverse range of urban settings in the global North and South. Accessible yet theoretically incisive, Introducing Urban Anthropology will be a valuable resource for anthropology students as well as of interest to those working in urban studies and related disciplines such as sociology and geography.
Author : Dr Giuliana B Prato
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409461181
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Anthropology in the City written by Dr Giuliana B Prato and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With half of humanity already living in towns and cities and that proportion expected to increase in the coming decades, society - both Western and non-Western - is fast becoming urban and even mega-urban. As such, research in urban settings is evidently timely and of great importance. Anthropology in the City brings together a leading team of anthropologists to address the complex methodological and theoretical challenges posed by field-research in urban settings, clearly identifying the significance of the anthropological paradigm in urban research and its centrality both to mainstream academic debates and to society more broadly. With essays from experts on wide-ranging ethnographic research from fields as diverse as China, Europe, India, Latin and North America and South East Asia, this book demonstrates the contribution that empirically-based anthropological analysis can make to our understanding of our increasingly urban world.
Author : Sumita Chaudhuri
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443878863
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Facets of Urbanisation written by Sumita Chaudhuri and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-18 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the result of an international conference organized by the Commission on Urban Anthropology, the Commission on Human Rights of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) and the Department of Anthropology of West Bengal State University, in collaboration with the Anthropological Survey of India, the Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya, the Indian Council of Social Science Research, the Indian Council of Medical Research, the Indian Museum, ...
Author : Setha Low
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317296974
Total Pages : 669 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)
Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and the City written by Setha Low and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-03 with total page 669 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and the City provides a comprehensive study of current and future urban issues on a global and local scale. Premised on an ‘engaged’ approach to urban anthropology, the volume adopts a thematic approach that covers a wide range of modern urban issues, with a particular focus on those of high public interest. Topics covered include security, displacement, social justice, privatisation, sustainability, and preservation. Offering valuable insight into how anthropologists investigate, make sense of, and then address a variety of urban issues, each chapter covers key theoretical and methodological concerns alongside rich ethnographic case study material. The volume is an essential reference for students and researchers in urban anthropology, as well as of interest for those in related disciplines, such as urban studies, sociology, and geography.
Author : Thomas Weaver
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Anthropology of Urban Environments written by Thomas Weaver and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compilation of social research articles on the social and cultural anthropology of urban area environments - includes papers on rural migration, urban sociology, etc. Bibliography pp. 127 to 136, references and statistical tables.
Author : Anja Schwanhäußer
Publisher : Birkhäuser
ISBN 13 : 3035607354
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (356 download)
Download or read book Sensing the City written by Anja Schwanhäußer and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2016-01-29 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The city is more than demography and architecture, it is a state of mind. Various groups, scenes and subcultures, widely known as "man in the street", shape and are shaped by urban space and its history according to imaginations, nightmares and dreams. Urban anthropologists get immersed in this closely knit fabric of urban culture and conduct field research with all their senses. The reader provides a compact introduction into urban anthropology, which has become the key discipline in exploring cities and city live as sites of encounter, conflict and sensation. It introduces the most influential writers in the field as well as young and upcoming field researchers.With essays by PeterJackson, LesBack, RuthBehar, MoritzEge, RolfLindner, Mirko Zardini, Margarethe Kusenbach, Loic Wacquant.
Author : Amos Rapoport
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 1483182169
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (831 download)
Download or read book Human Aspects of Urban Form written by Amos Rapoport and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2016-06-03 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human Aspects of Urban Form: Towards a Man—Environment Approach to Urban Form and Design discusses the man—environment interaction in urban setting. The book is comprised six chapters that provide a broad conceptual framework using a range of disciplines. The text first tackles urban design as the organization of space, time, meaning, and communication. The second chapter talks about environmental quality, while the third chapter deals with environmental cognition. Next, the book tackles the importance and nature of environmental perception. Chapter 5 discusses the city in terms of social, cultural, and territorial variables. Chapter 6 details the distinction between associational and perceptual worlds. The book will be of great interest to urban planners and government policymakers. Researchers and practitioners of sociological and behavioral science will also benefit from the book.
Author : Unni Wikan
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226896854
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)
Download or read book Generous Betrayal written by Unni Wikan and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All over Western Europe, the lot of many non-Western immigrants is one of marginalization, discrimination, and increasing segregation. In this bold and controversial book, Unni Wikan shows how an excessive respect for "their culture" has been part of the problem. Culture has become a new concept of race, sustaining ethnic identity politics that subvert human rights—especially for women and children. Fearful of being considered racist, state agencies have sacrificed freedom and equality in the name of culture. Comparing her native Norway to Western Europe and the United States, Wikan focuses on people caught in turmoil, how institutions function, and the ways in which public opinion is shaped and state policies determined. Contradictions arise between policies of respect for minority cultures, welfare, and freedom, but the goal is the same: to create a society committed to both social justice and respect for human rights. Writing with power and grace, Wikan makes a plea for a renewed moral vitality and human empathy that can pave the way for more effective social policies and create change.
Author : Marie Stender
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000398382
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Architectural Anthropology written by Marie Stender and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-20 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book prompts architects and anthropologists to think and act together. In order to fully grasp the relationship between human beings and their built environments and design more livable and sustainable buildings and cities in the future, we need new cross-disciplinary approaches combining anthropology and architecture. This is neither anthropology of architecture, nor ethnography for architects, but a new approach beyond these positions: Architectural Anthropology. The anthology gathers contributions from leading researchers from various Nordic universities, architectural schools, and architectural firms as well as prominent international scholars like Tim Ingold, Albena Yaneva, and Sarah Pink – all exploring, developing, and innovating the cross-disciplinary field between anthropology and architecture. Several contributions are co-written by architects and anthropologists, merging approaches from the two disciplines in order to fully explore the dynamics of lived space. Through a broad range of empirical examples, methodological approaches, and theoretical reflections, the anthology provides inspiration and tools for scholars, students, and practitioners working with lived space. The first part focusses on homes, walls, and boundaries, the second on urban space and public life, and the third on processes of creativity, participation, and design.
Author : Bernard Gauthiez
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110623064
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)
Download or read book The production of Urban Space, Temporality, and Spatiality written by Bernard Gauthiez and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The production of urban space in scarcely studied by scholars in historical and urban studies, the city being still predominantly seen as a frame in which activities and social relationship develop, not a produce in itself. The scope of the book is the comprehension of this production. This implies an adequate conceptualisation of the way urban space can be measured and broken down in units which can be put in relation with social processes and agents. A first part examines the concepts and their implications. The second part deals with the anthropology and typology of architectural production considered in relation to demography. The third part develops on the rhythms of the space production at Lyon from the late 15th century to the 19th. The temporalities and spatialities of the production are determined and examined. The agents of the production are studied all along the period, in parallel to the market aimed at: investors in real estate, tenants, activities. Each phenomenon identified can be described and understood as in the meantime a temporal, spatial and social unit.
Author : Jenny Banh
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498528546
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)
Download or read book Anthropology of Los Angeles written by Jenny Banh and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-01-23 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Anthropology of Los Angeles: Place and Agency in an Urban Setting questions the production and representations of L.A. by revealing the gray spaces between the real and imagined city. Contributors to this urban ethnography document hidden histories that connect daily actors within cultural systems to global social formations. This diverse collection is recommended for scholars of anthropology, history, sociology, race studies, gender studies, food studies, Latin American studies, and Asian studies.
Author : Joshua Lockyer
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 0857458809
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (574 download)
Download or read book Environmental Anthropology Engaging Ecotopia written by Joshua Lockyer and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In order to move global society towards a sustainable “ecotopia,” solutions must be engaged in specific places and communities, and the authors here argue for re-orienting environmental anthropology from a problem-oriented towards a solutions-focused endeavor. Using case studies from around the world, the contributors—scholar-activists and activist-practitioners— examine the interrelationships between three prominent environmental social movements: bioregionalism, a worldview and political ecology that grounds environmental action and experience; permaculture, a design science for putting the bioregional vision into action; and ecovillages, the ever-dynamic settings for creating sustainable local cultures.
Author : Richard E. Ocejo
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787690350
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (876 download)
Download or read book Urban Ethnography written by Richard E. Ocejo and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Showcasing the ideas, analysis, and perspectives of experts in the method conducting research on a wide array of social phenomena in a variety of city contexts, this volume provides a look at the legacies of urban ethnography's methodological traditions and some of the challenges its practitioners face today.
