TY - BOOK AU - Gmelch,George AU - Kuppinger,Petra TI - Urban life: readings in the anthropology of the city SN - 978-1-4786-3569-7 U1 - 307.76 23E PY - 2018/// CY - Long Grove PB - Waveland Press KW - Urban anthropology KW - Sociology, Urban N1 - 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 ER -