Title & Author:

Sensing the city : a companion to urban anthropology / Anja Schwanhäusser (ed).

Publication:

Gütersloh : Bauverlag ; Basel : Birkhäuser, part of Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2016]
©2016

Description:

189 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.

Series:

Bauwelt Fundamente, 0522-5094 ; 155

Notes:
Essays.
Includes bibliographical references.
Prologue -- Learning to Observe in Chicago / Howard S. Becker -- Introduction -- Anthropology in the City -- Urban Ethnography / Peter Jackson -- Norman's Bay / Nele Bronner -- Inscriptions of Love / Les Back -- Ann Arbor / Nek Bronner -- My Mexican Friend Marta Who Lives Across the Border from Me in Detroit / Ruth Behar -- Berlin / Nele Bronner -- Carrot-Cut Jeans: An Ethnographic Account of Assertiveness, Embarrassment and Ambiguity in the Figuration of Working-Class Male Youth Identities in Berlin / Moritz Ege -- London / Nele Bronner -- Anthropology of the City -- The Imaginary of the City / Rolf Lindner -- Millbrook / Nek Bronner -- The City as Melodrama / Jonathan Raban Toward a Sensorial Urbanism / Mirko Zardini -- The Go-Along Method / Margarethe Kusenbach -- Chicago's South Side / Nele Bronner -- Urban Desolation and Symbolic Denigration in the Hyperghetto / Loic Wacquant Epilogue -- Doing an Ethnography of `Non-Events' / Orvar Lofgren -- Out in the Field -- Comics for an Urban Anthropology.

Summary:

The city is more than demography and architecture, it is a state of mind. Various groups, scenes and subcultures, widely known as "man in the street," shape and are shaped by urban space and its history according to imaginations, nightmares and dreams. Urban anthropologists get immersed in this closely knit fabric of urban culture and conduct field research with all their senses. The reader provides a compact introduction into urban anthropology, which has become the key discipline in exploring cities and city live as sites of encounter, conflict and sensation. It introduces the most influential writers in the field as well as young and upcoming field researchers. With essays by PeterJackson, LesBack, RuthBehar, MoritzEge, RolfLindner, Mirko Zardini, Margarethe Kusenbach, Loic Wacquant. -- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9783035608489 (pbk.)
3035608482 (pbk.)
(online)
9783035607352
9783035607291

Subject:

Urban anthropology.
Anthropologie urbaine.
71.14 urban society.
Città Antropologia

Added entries:

Schwanhäusser, Anja, editor.
Bauwelt Fundamente ; 155.

On cover: Urban ethnography

Holdings:

Location: Library main 292105
Call No.: BIB 236145
Status: Available