Sensing the City: A Companion to Urban Anthropology

Published by Birkhäuser 2021

Sensing the City

A Companion to Urban Anthropology

Edited by: Anja Schwanhäußer

Volume 155 in the series Bauwelt Fundamente

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783035607352

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Exploring life in the city

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.

Standard reference work on urban field research
Contributions by leding reserchers and young scientist
With comic-strips by Nele Brönner

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A.Schwanhäußer, Stadtanthropologin, Forschungsprojekt Öster.Akademie der Wissenschaften

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"Insgesamt dürfte der Schwanhäußer‘sche Band eine konstruktive Bereicherung einer jeden urbanitätsbezogenen Bibliothek, gleich ob institutionell oder privat, darstellen. Insofern kann man der Herausgeberin nur nachdrücklich und deutlich für Ihre Tätigkeit danken!"
Burkhart Lauterbach in: Bayerisches Jahrbuch für Volkslumde 2017, 281-284

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Prologue. Learning to Observe in Chicago Howard S. Becker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	10
Anthropology in the City
Urban Ethnography Peter Jackson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
Norman’s Bay Nele Brönner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
Inscriptions of Love Les Back Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	44
Ann Arbor Nele Brönner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
My Mexican Friend Marta Who Lives Across the Border from Me in Detroit Ruth Behar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	76
Berlin Nele Brönner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
Carrot-Cut Jeans: An Ethnographic Account of Assertiveness, Embarrassment and Ambiguity in the Figuration of Working-Class Male Youth Identities in Berlin Moritz Ege Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	88
London Nele Brönner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
Anthropology of the City
The Imaginary of the City Rolf Lindner and Rolf Lindner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	114
Millbrook Nele Brönner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
The City as Melodrama Jonathan Raban Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	124
Toward a Sensorial Urbanism Mirko Zardini Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
The Go-Along Method Margarethe Kusenbach Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	154
Chicago’s South Side Nele Brönner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
Urban Desolation and Symbolic Denigration in the Hyperghetto Loïc Wacquant Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	162
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Doing an Ethnography of “Non-Events” Billy Ehn and Orvar Löfgren Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
Out in the Field – Comics for an Urban Anthropology Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
Acknowledgements, References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
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Language: English
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Audience: Architects, urban researchers, anthropologists
Pages
- Main content: 192
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 30

eBook

Published: January 29, 2016
ISBN: 9783035607352

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Published: January 29, 2016
ISBN: 9783035608489