- 242 pages
- English
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About this book
With half of humanity already living in towns and cities and that proportion expected to increase in the coming decades, society - both Western and non-Western - is fast becoming urban and even mega-urban. As such, research in urban settings is evidently timely and of great importance. Anthropology in the City brings together a leading team of anthropologists to address the complex methodological and theoretical challenges posed by field-research in urban settings, clearly identifying the significance of the anthropological paradigm in urban research and its centrality both to mainstream academic debates and to society more broadly. With essays from experts on wide-ranging ethnographic research from fields as diverse as China, Europe, India, Latin and North America and South East Asia, this book demonstrates the contribution that empirically-based anthropological analysis can make to our understanding of our increasingly urban world.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half-Title Page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table Of Contents
- List of Contributors
- 1 Introduction: The Contemporary Significance of Anthropology in the City
- 2 Comparative Reflections on Fieldwork in Urban India: A Personal Account
- 3 Exercising Power without Authority: Powerful Elite Implode in Urban Italy
- 4 Anthropological Research in Brindisi and Durrës: Methodological Reflections
- 5 Skopje as a Research Site: Issues of Methodology and Representation
- 6 Contested Spaces: Street Vendors in the Andean Metropole of Cusco, Peru
- 7 Celebrating Urban Diversity in a Rainbow Nation: Political Management of Ethno-cultural Differences in a Malaysian City
- 8 Political Manipulation: Death, Dying and Funeral Processes in Northern Ireland
- 9 Between the Verandah and the Mall: Fieldwork and the Spaces of Femininity
- 10 On Urban Anthropology in Contemporary China
- 11 Urban Anthropological Research: Old Spaces and New Ways of Living
- Index