Urban life readings in the anthropology of the city / [Texte imprimé] :
George Gmelch, Petra Kuppinger
- 6th ed.
- Long Grove : Waveland Press, cop. 2018
- 1 vol. (519 p.) ; 23 cm
Notes bibliogr.
Urban fieldwork : anthropologists in cities. Anthropological fieldwork in cities / Networks, neighborhoods, and markets : fieldwork in Tokyo / Nomads in the city : studying Irish Travellers / Moscow encounters : ethnography in a global urban village / Fieldwork in the corporate offices of Jakarta, Indonesia / Student fieldworkers in village and city / Urban communities. Urbanism as a way of life / Urban danger : life in a neighborhood of strangers / The edge and the center : gated communities and the discourse of urban fear / Rethinking camps : Palestinian refugees in Damascus, Syria / In motion : transportation and knowledge in São Paulo / Urban structures and institutions. The culture of poverty / How urban ethnography counters myths about the poor / Office work and the crack alternative among Puerto Rican dealers in East Harlem / The view from the front desk : addressing homelessness and the homeless in Dallas / Gangs, poverty, and the future / Civic ecology, urban elders, and New York City's community garden movement / Neighbors and kin in Chinese cities / Caste, politics, and criminality in urban India / Migration and adaptation. The extended community : migration and transformation in Tzintzuntzan, Mexico / A West Indian life in Britain / First Nations migration : the case of Western Canada / Japanese Brazilian ethnic return migration / Cityward migration in comparative perspective / Globalization and transnationalism. Transnationalism, old and new : New York immigrants / From Cuenca, Ecuador to New York, U.S.A. : families and transnational lives / Global transactions : Sudanese refugees sending money home / Hyderabad : continuities and transformations / Beyond urban and rural communities in the 21st century / George M. Foster and Robert V. Kemper -- Theodore C. Bestor -- Sharon Bohn Gmelch -- Melissa L. Caldwell -- William Leggett -- George Gmelch and Sharon Bohn Gmelch -- Louis Wirth -- Sally Engle Merry -- Setha M. Low -- Nell Gabiam -- Derek Pardue -- Oscar Lewis -- Judith Goode -- Philippe Bourgois -- Julie Adkins -- James Diego Vigil -- Jay Sokolovsky -- William Jankowiak -- Jeffrey Witsoe -- Robert V. Kemper -- George Gmelch -- Martin Cooke and Danièle Bélanger -- Takeyuki (Gaku) Tsuda -- Caroline B. Brettell and Robert V. Kemper -- Nancy Foner -- Ann Miles -- Dianna J. Shandy -- Karen Isaksen Leonard -- Walter P. Zenner Pt. 1. Pt. 2. Pt. 3. Pt. 4. Pt. 5.