Sensing the City : A Companion to Urban Anthropology Paperback / softback
Edited by Anja Schwanhausser
Part of the Bauwelt Fundamente series
Paperback / softback
Description
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.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:192 pages, 30 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Birkhauser
- Publication Date:29/01/2016
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- ISBN:9783035608489
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:192 pages, 30 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Birkhauser
- Publication Date:29/01/2016
- Category:
- ISBN:9783035608489
