Urban life : readings in the anthropology of the city /
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| Edition: | 5th ed. |
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| Imprint: | Long Grove, Ill. : Waveland Press, c2010. |
| Description: | xii, 427 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7892123 |
Table of Contents:
- Pt. 1. Urban fieldwork : anthropologists in cities. Anthropological fieldwork in cities / George M. Foster and Robert V. Kemper
- Networks, neighborhoods, and markets : fieldwork in Tokyo / Theodore C. Bestor
- Nomads in the city : studying Irish Travellers / Sharon Bohn Gmelch
- Moscow encounters : ethnography in a global urban village / Melissa L. Caldwell
- Fieldwork in the corporate offices of Jakarta, Indonesia / William Leggett
- Student fieldworkers in village and city / George Gmelch and Sharon Bohn Gmelch
- pt. 2. Urban communities. Urbanism as a way of life / Louis Wirth
- Urban danger : life in a neighborhood of strangers / Sally Engle Merry
- The edge and the center : gated communities and the discourse of urban fear / Setha M. Low
- Rethinking camps : Palestinian refugees in Damascus, Syria / Nell Gabiam
- In motion : transportation and knowledge in São Paulo / Derek Pardue
- pt. 3. Urban structures and institutions. The culture of poverty / Oscar Lewis
- How urban ethnography counters myths about the poor / Judith Goode
- Office work and the crack alternative among Puerto Rican drug dealers in East Harlem / Philippe Bourgois
- The view from the front desk : addressing homelessness and the homeless in Dallas / Julie Adkins
- Gangs, poverty, and the future / James Diego Vigil
- Civic ecology, urban elders, and New York City's community garden movement / Jay Sokolovsky
- Neighbors and kin in Chinese cities / William Jankowiak
- Caste, politics, and criminality in urban India / Jeffrey Witsoe
- pt. 4. Migration and adaptation. The extended community : migration and transformation in Tzintzuntzan, Mexico / Robert V. Kemper
- A West Indian life in Britain / George Gmelch
- First Nations migration : the case of Western Canada / Martin Cooke and Danièle Bélanger
- Japanese Brazilian ethnic return migration / Takeyuki (Gaku) Tsuda
- Cityward migration in comparative perspective / Caroline B. Brettell and Robert V. Kemper
- pt. 5. Globalization and transnationalism. Transnationalism, old and new : New York immigrants / Nancy Foner
- From Cuenca, Ecuador, to New York, U.S.A. : families and transnational lives / Ann Miles
- Global transactions : Sudanese refugees sending money home / Dianna J. Shandy
- Hyderabad : continuities and transformations / Karen Isaksen Leonard
- Beyond urban and rural communities in the 21st century / Walter P. Zenner.
