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

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

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Description 1 online resource (189 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Bauwelt Fundamente, 0522-5094 ; 155
Bauwelt Fundamente ; 155.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Prologue: Learning to observe in Chicago / Howard S. Becker -- Introduction / Anja Schwanhäußer -- Urban ethnography / Peter Jackson -- Norman's Bay / Nele Brönner with Les Back -- Inscriptions of love / Les Back -- Ann Arbor / Nele Brönner -- My Mexican friend Marta who lives across the border from me in Detroit / Ruth Behar -- Berlin / Nele Brönner -- 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 Brönner -- The imaginary of the city / Rolf Lindner -- Millbrook / Nele Brönner -- The city as melodrama / Joanathan Raban -- Toward a sensorial urbanism / Mirko Zardini -- The go-along method / Margarethe Kusenbach -- Chicago's South Side / Nele Brönner -- Urban desolation and symbolic denigration in the hyperghetto / Loïc Wacquant -- Doing an ethnography of "non-events" / Billy Ehn, Orvar Löfgren -- Out in the field: Comics for an urban anthropology / Nele Brönner.
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"--Provided by publisher.
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Subject Urban anthropology.
Urban anthropology.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Schwanhäusser, Anja, editor.
Note On cover of print book: Urban ethnography
Other Form: Print version: Sensing the city. Gütersloh : Bauverlag ; Basel : Birkhäuser, part of Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2016] 9783035608489 (DLC) 2016440961 (OCoLC)939389133
ISBN 9783035607352 (pdf)
3035607354 (pdf)
9783035607291 (epub)
303560729X (epub)
3035608482
9783035608489
9783035608489 (paperback)
3035608482 (paperback)
Standard No. 9783035608489