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Sensing the City: A Companion to Urban Anthropology
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Paperback. A collection of essays that offers insight into urban anthropological research, including its methods, recent developments, and novel approaches (the imagination of a city, urban scenes). It also includes a concluding chapter on street ethnography that presents a variety of ethnographic, experimental and artistic methods. Editor(s): Schwanhausser, Anja. Series: Bauwelt Fundamente. Num Pages: 192 pages, 30 black & white illustrations, 30 schw.-w. Abb. BIC Classification: AMVD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 194 x 18. Weight in Grams: 306.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Birkhauser Switzerland
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Series
Bauwelt Fundamente
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
, Switzerland
ISBN
9783035608489
SKU
V9783035608489
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A.Schwanhäußer, Stadtanthropologin, Forschungsprojekt Öster.Akademie der Wissenschaften
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