| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 209 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Studies in environmental anthropology and ethnobiology ; v. 15
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Studies in environmental anthropology and ethnobiology ; v. 15.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
1. Introduction: cultural and material forms of urban pollution / Rivke Jaffe and Eveline Dürr -- 2. "Tidy Kiwis/dirty Asians": cultural pollution and migration in Auckland, New Zealand / Eveline Dürr -- 3. Private cleanliness, public mess: purity, pollution and space in Kottar, South India / Damaris Lüthi -- 4. The jungle and the city: perceptions of the urban among Indo-Fijians in Suva, Fiji / Susanna Trnka -- 5. Gendered fears of pollution: traversing public space in neoliberal Cairo / Anouk de Koning -- 6. The choice between clean and dirty: discourses of aesthetics, morality and progress in post-revolutionary Asmara, Eritrea / Magnus Treiber -- 7. Using pollution to frame collective action: urban grassroots mobilisations in Budapest / Szabina Kerényi -- 8. Cleanness, order and security: the re-emergence of restrictive definitions of urbanity in Europe / Johanna Rolshoven -- 9. Social equity and social housing densification in Glen Innes, New Zealand: a political ecology approach / Kathryn Scott, Angela Shaw and Christina Bava -- 10. Afterword: impure thought on messy cities / Aidan Davison. |
| Summary |
Re-examining Mary Douglas' work on pollution and concepts of purity, this volume explores modern expressions of these themes in urban areas, examining the intersections of material and cultural pollution. It presents ethnographic case studies from a range of cities affected by globalization processes such as neoliberal urban policies, privatization of urban space, continued migration and spatialized ethnic tension. What has changed since the appearance of Purity and Danger? How have anthropological views on pollution changed accordingly? This volume focuses on cultural meanings and values that. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Urban anthropology.
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Urban pollution.
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Human ecology.
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Environmental degradation.
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Taboo.
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Purity, Ritual.
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human ecology. |
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taboo. |
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Environmental -- Pollution Control. |
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NATURE -- Environmental Conservation & Protection. |
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Environmental degradation |
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Human ecology |
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Primitive societies. |
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Purity, Ritual |
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Taboo |
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Urban anthropology |
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Urban pollution |
| Added Author |
Dürr, Eveline, editor.
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Jaffe, Rivke, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Duerr, Eveline. Urban Pollution : Cultural Meanings, Social Practices. New York : Berghahn Books, Inc., ©2010 9781845456924 |
| ISBN |
9781845458485 (electronic bk.) |
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1845458486 (electronic bk.) |
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9781782385097 (electronic bk.) |
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1782385096 (electronic bk.) |
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9781845456924 (hardback ; alk. paper) |
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1845456920 (hardback ; alk. paper) |
| Standard No. |
9786612699191 |
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