| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 231 pages) |
| Series |
Urban anthropology |
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Urban anthropology series.
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| Contents |
Introduction: The contemporary significance of anthropology in the city / Italo Pardo and Guiliana B. Prato -- Comparative reflections on fieldwork in urban India : a personal account / Jonathan Parry -- Exercising power without authority : powerful elite implode in urban Italy / Italo Pardo -- Skopje as a research site : issues of methodology and representation / Ilká Thiessen -- Contested spaces : street vendors in the Andean metropole of Cusco, Peru / Linda J. Seligmann -- Celebrating urban diversity in a rainbow nation : political management of ethno-cultural differences in a Malaysian city / Christian Giordano -- Political manipulation : death, dying and funeral processes in Northern Ireland / Marcello Mollica -- Between the verandah and the mall : fieldwork and the spaces of femininity / Henrika Donner -- On urban anthropology in contemporary China / Elisabeth Lund Engebretsen -- Urban anthropological research : old spaces and new ways of living / Fernando Monge |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Urban anthropology.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban.
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Urban anthropology
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Stadtforschung
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Ethnologie
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Internationaler Vergleich
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Pardo, Italo
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Prato, Giuliana B
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| LC no. |
2012021804 |
| ISBN |
9781409408345 |
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1409408345 |
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1409408337 |
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9781409408338 |
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9781280876868 |
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1280876867 |
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1317180402 |
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9781317180401 |
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1317180399 |
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9781317180395 |
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9786613718174 |
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6613718173 |
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