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Theorizing the City: The New Urban Anthropology Reader

Paperback • 1999 • English

Theorizing the City: The New Urban Anthropology Reader

By Setha M. Low

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Anthropological perspectives are not often represented in urban studies, even though many anthropologists have been contributing actively to theory and research on urban poverty, racism, globalization, and architecture. <i>The New Urban Anthropology Reader</i> corrects this omission by presenting 12 cross-cultural case studies focusing on the analysis of space and place.Five images of the city-the divided city, the contested city, the global city, the modernist city, and the postmodern city-serv...Show more

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9780813527208

Published year

1999

Language

English

Original title

Theorizing the City: The New Urban Anthropology Reader

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Paperback

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