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Urban life : readings in the anthropology of the city / [edited by] George Gmelch, Walter P. Zenner.

Title
Urban life : readings in the anthropology of the city / [edited by] George Gmelch, Walter P. Zenner.
Publication
Prospect Heights, Ill. : Waveland Press, c2002.

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Additional Authors
  • Gmelch, George.
  • Zenner, Walter P.
Description
x, 394 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.
Alternative Title
Readings in the anthropology of the city
Subject
  • Sociology, Urban
  • Urban anthropology
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
  • The earliest cities / Michael E. Smith -- The preindustrial city / Gideon Sjoberg -- Human health and the city / Lawrence M. Schell -- Beyond urban and rural / Walter P. Zenner -- Urbanism as a way of life / Louis Wirth / The urban experience / Stanley Milgram -- The metropolis and everyday life / Robert Rotenberg -- Urban language in a rural setting / Susan E. Cook -- Urban danger / Sally Engle Merry -- Anthropological fieldwork in cities / George M. Foster and Robert V. Kemper -- Networks, neighborhoods, and markets / Theodore C. Besto -- An urban field experience / Sharon Bohn Gmelch -- Fieldwork on Wall Street / Mitchel Y. Abolafia.
  • Migration and adaptation / Tzintzuntzeños in Mexico City and beyond / Robert V. Kemper -- A West Indian life in Britain / George Gmelch -- Women are migrants too / Caroline B. Brettell -- Surviving in the city / Nici Nelson -- European cyclical migration and economic development / Robert Rhoades -- The culture of poverty / Oscar Lewis -- How urban ethnography counters myths about the poor / Judith Goode -- Life in a soup kitchen / Irene Glasser -- Office work and the crack alternative among Puerto Rican drug dealers in East Harlem / Philippe Bourgois -- Urban Chinese / William Jankowiak -- Transnationalism, old and new / Nancy Foner -- Globalization, women's labor, and men's pleasure / Denise Brennan -- Japanese hip-hop and the globalization of popular culture / Ian Condry.
ISBN
157766194X
LCCN
2002277258 ^
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library