Urban life [Texte imprimé] : readings in the anthropology of the city / George Gmelch, Petra Kuppinger

Notes bibliogr.

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 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