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Urban Life : Readings in the Anthropology of the City

by: Gmelch, George; Zenner, Walter P.; Zenner, Gmelch; Zenner, Walter P.

Urban Life : Readings in the Anthropology of the City

by: Gmelch, George; Zenner, Walter P.; Zenner, Gmelch; Zenner, Walter P.

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9781577661948
ISBN 10:
157766194X
Edition: 4th
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 08/01/2001
Publisher: Waveland Pr Inc
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Preface

Part 1 The City in History

Introduction

(2)

The Earliest Cities

(17)

Michael E. Smith

The Preindustrial City

(12)

Gideon Sjoberg

Human Health and the City

(21)

Lawrence M. Schell

Beyond Urban and Rural: Communities in the 21st Century

(12)

Walter P. Zenner

Part 2 Urbanism

Introduction

(4)

Urbanism as a Way of Life

(18)

Louis Wirth

The Urban Experience: A Psychological Analysis

(10)

Stanley Milgram

The Metropolis and Everyday Life

(13)

Robert Rotenberg

Urban Language in a Rural Setting: The Case of Phokeng, South Africa

106

(9)

Susan E. Cook

Urban Danger: Life in a Neighborhood of Strangers

115

(16)

Sally Engle Merry

Part 3 Urban Fieldwork: Anthropologists in Cities

Introduction

127

(4)

Anthropological Fieldwork in Cities

131

(15)

George M. Foster

Robert V. Kemper

Networks, Neighborhoods, and Markets: Fieldwork in Tokyo

146

(16)

Theodore C. Bestor

An Urban Field Experience: Irish Travellers in Dublin

162

(17)

Sharon Bohn Gmelch

Fieldwork on Wall Street

179

(14)

Mitchel Y. Abolafia

Part 4 Migration and the Adaptation of Migrants to City Life

Introduction

187

(6)

Migration and Adaptation: Tzintzuntzenos in Mexico City and Beyond

193

(12)

Robert V. Kemper

A West Indian Life in Britain

205

(17)

George Gmelch

Women Are Migrants Too: A Portuguese Perspective

222

(13)

Caroline B. Brettell

Surviving in the City: Coping Strategies of Female Migrants in Nairobi, Kenya

235

(18)

Nici Nelson

European Cyclical Migration and Economic Development: The Case of Southern Spain

253

(16)

Robert Rhoades

Part 5 Urban Class and Family

Introduction

265

(4)

The Culture of Poverty

269

(10)

Oscar Lewis

How Urban Ethnography Counters Myths about the Poor

279

(17)

Judith Goode

Life in a Soup Kitchen

296

(10)

Irene Glasser

Office Work and the Crack Alternative Among Puerto Rican Drug Dealers in East Harlem

306

(15)

Philippe Bourgois

Urban Chinese: Family Life in a Communist Society

321

(20)

William Jankowiak

Part 6 Globalization and Transnationalism

Introduction

337

(4)

Transnationalism, Old and New: New York Immigrants

341

(16)

Nancy Foner

Globalization, Women's Labor, and Men's Pleasure: Sex Tourism in Sosua, the Dominican Republic

357

(15)

Denise Brennan

Japanese Hip-Hop and the Globalization of Popular Culture

372

(17)

Ian Condry

About the Authors

389

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