Anthropology in the City : Methodology and Theory
Italo. Pardo
Bok Engelsk 2012 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Farnham : : Ashgate Publishing Ltd, , 2012.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (242 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Contents; List of Contributors; 1 Introduction: The Contemporary Significance of Anthropology in the City; 2 Comparative Reflections on Fieldwork in Urban India: A Personal Account; 3 Exercising Power without Authority: Powerful Elite Implode in Urban Italy; 5 Skopje as a Research Site: Issues of Methodology and Representation; 6Contested Spaces: Street Vendors in the Andean Metropole of Cusco, Peru; 7 Celebrating Urban Diversity in a Rainbow Nation; 8 Political Manipulation: Death, Dying and Funeral Processes in Northern Ireland. - 9 Between the Verandah and the Mall: Fieldwork and the Spaces of Femininity10 On Urban Anthropology inContemporary China; 11 Urban Anthropological Research: Old Spaces and New Ways of Living; Index. - 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 acade
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| ISBN | 9781409408338
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