Urban Anthropology

Author : Donald M. Nonini
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781118378656

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A Companion to Urban Anthropology by Donald M. Nonini Pdf

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 : Rivke Jaffe,Anouk De Koning
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317363989

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Introducing Urban Anthropology by Rivke Jaffe,Anouk De Koning Pdf

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 : Setha M. Low
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0813527201

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Theorizing the City by Setha M. Low Pdf

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 : Richard Gabriel Fox
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015006572823

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Urban Anthropology by Richard Gabriel Fox Pdf

Author : Italo Pardo,Giuliana B. Prato
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317180401

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Anthropology in the City by Italo Pardo,Giuliana B. Prato Pdf

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 : Setha Low
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 669 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317296973

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The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and the City by Setha Low Pdf

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 : Rivke Jaffe,Anouk de Koning
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000826142

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Introducing Urban Anthropology by Rivke Jaffe,Anouk de Koning Pdf

This book provides an up-to-date introduction to the important field of urban anthropology. This is a 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, and politics and governance. These are illustrated by lively case studies drawn from urban settings across the world. Accessible yet theoretically incisive, Introducing Urban Anthropology will be a valuable resource for anthropology students and also for those working in urban studies and related disciplines such as sociology and geography. The revised second edition includes updated theoretical discussions and new ethnographic case studies. It features a new chapter on neoliberalism, austerity and solidarity, and engages more extensively with digital transformations of urban life.

Author : Leith Mullings
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0231050011

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Cities of the United States by Leith Mullings Pdf

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 : Italo Pardo,Giuliana B. Prato
Publisher : Springer
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319642895

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The Palgrave Handbook of Urban Ethnography by Italo Pardo,Giuliana B. Prato Pdf

These ethnographically-based studies of diverse urban experiences across the world present cutting edge research and stimulate an empirically-grounded theoretical reconceptualization. The essays identify ethnography as a powerful tool for making sense of life in our rapidly changing, complex cities. They stress the point that while there is no need to fetishize fieldwork—or to view it as an end in itself —its unique value cannot be overstated. These active, engaged researchers have produced essays that avoid abstractions and generalities while engaging with the analytical complexities of ethnographic evidence. Together, they prove the great value of knowledge produced by long-term fieldwork to mainstream academic debates and, more broadly, to society.

Author : Petra Y. Kuppinger
Publisher : Waveland Press
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478651079

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Cities and Spaces by Petra Y. Kuppinger Pdf

Global cities like New York City and Tokyo, national capitals like Cairo and Dakar, and regional centers like Bangalore and Barcelona are powerful economic, political, and cultural hubs. Cities and Spaces surveys the development, transformation, and role of cities in a globalized world while exploring the history, methods, classic texts, and current discussions in urban anthropology. Chapters examine urban dwellers’ lives, work, culture, and experiences in different yet closely linked cities worldwide. This concise introductory treatment illustrates how anthropologists address a wide range of questions like: What does it mean to work in an informal market in Lomé? How does gentrification affect a Mexican American neighborhood in Chicago? How do people experience urban environmental degradation and injustice? How do race and ethnicity shape the experiences of urbanites? How do immigrants create new urban religious communities?

Author : Richard Basham
Publisher : Palo Alto, Calif. : Mayfield Publishing Company
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035858526

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Urban Anthropology by Richard Basham Pdf

Author : Anja Schwanhäußer
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-29
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783035607352

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Sensing the City by Anja Schwanhäußer Pdf

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 : Edwin Eames,Judith Granich Goode,Judith Goode
Publisher : Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036927171

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Anthropology of the City by Edwin Eames,Judith Granich Goode,Judith Goode Pdf

Author : Petra Y. Kuppinger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1478649291

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Cities and Spaces by Petra Y. Kuppinger Pdf

Global cities like New York City and Tokyo, national capitals like Cairo and Dakar, and regional centers like Bangalore and Barcelona are powerful economic, political, and cultural hubs. Cities and Spaces surveys the development, transformation, and role of cities in a globalized world while exploring the history, methods, classic texts, and current discussions in urban anthropology.Chapters examine urban dwellers' lives, work, culture, and experiences in different yet closely linked cities worldwide. This concise introductory treatment illustrates how anthropologists address a wide range of questions like: What does it mean to work in an informal market in Lomé? How does gentrification affect a Mexican American neighborhood in Chicago? How do people experience urban environmental degradation and injustice? How do race and ethnicity shape the experiences of urbanites? How do immigrants create new urban religious communities?

Author : Italo Pardo,Giuliana B. Prato
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317180395

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Anthropology in the City by Italo Pardo,Giuliana B. Prato Pdf

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.