Anthropology of Los Angeles (eBook, PDF)

Place and Agency in an Urban Setting
Redaktion: Banh, Jenny; King, Melissa

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The Anthropology of Los Angeles: Place and Agency in an Urban Setting questions the production and representations of L.A. by revealing the gray spaces between the real and imagined city. Contributors to this urban ethnography document hidden histories that connect daily actors within cultural systems to global social formations. This diverse collection is recommended for scholars of anthropology, history, sociology, race studies, gender studies, food studies, Latin American studies, and Asian studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978789579
• Artikelnr.: 74843020

Autorenporträt

Jenny Banh is assistant professor of anthropology and Asian American studies at California State University, Fresno. Melissa King is faculty chair of the anthropology department at San Bernardino Valley College.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Yolanda T. Moses
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Melissa King with Jenny Banh
Chapter 1 Hauntings of a Different Kind: Militarized Spaces and Memories of
Containment
Jocelyn Pacleb
Chapter 2 Bicycle Anthropology of Los Angeles
Adonia Lugo, Allison Mattheis, with Maryann Aguirre
Chapter 3 The People in Los Angeles Public Spaces Are Not Dead:
Micro-Sociability in the Squares, Plazas, and Parks of the Post-Modern
Global City
Nathalie Boucher
Chapter 4 Embodying Democratic Spaces: Community Organizer Alternative
Narratives That Challenge the Mainstream Negative Stigma of South Los
Angeles
George Villanueva
Chapter 5 Analysis of Latino-Korean Relations in the Workplace: Latino
Perspectives in the Aftermath of the 1992 Los Angeles Civil Unrest
Kyeyoung Park
Chapter 6 Memory: The Angeleno Pharmakon
Charles Joseph
Chapter 7 Multiple Ways of Knowing: Layers of History on The Great Wall of
Los Angeles
Andrea Lepage
Chapter 8 Making Space: Ethnic Towns and the Racing of