Free Delivery Over $100
|
|
|||
|
||||
OverviewThe 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jenny Banh , Maryann Aguirre , Beth F. Baker , Jenny BanhPublisher: Lexington Books Imprint: Lexington Books Dimensions: Width: 15.00cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 22.30cm Weight: 0.395kg ISBN: 9781498528559ISBN 10: 1498528554 Pages: 260 Publication Date: 11 April 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsForeword 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 Public Space in Los Angeles Beth F. Baker and ChorSwang Ngin Chapter 9 Agro-Ethnic Landscapes of Los Angeles Natale Zappia Chapter 10 A Conversation with Diego Vigil a Los Angeles Pioneer Anthropologist: An Anthropologist Past, Present, and Future Jenny Banh Conclusion Jenny BanhReviewsBanh and King's anthology is a timely and multifaceted addition to Los Angeles studies and urban anthropology. Reminiscent of editors Raul Villa and George Sanchez's Los Angeles and the Future of Urban Cultures (2005), the book focuses on contestations of power and space through public culture, agency, and memory. Threads of activism and intersecting identities run throughout the chapters, which range from the aftermath of the 1992 LA uprisings to the Great Wall of Los Angeles mural, urban agriculture, and models of community organizing. The book's methodological emphasis on ground-up ethnography (including autoethnography) is one of its greatest strengths, along with interventions into scholarship of the city that has largely drawn from archives, interviews, or literary works.... [T]his is a useful volume for students and scholars of postmodern urban landscapes, as well as practitioners seeking an introduction to the heterogeneity of Los Angeles. Summing Up: Recommended. All levels/libraries. * CHOICE * This important collection on Los Angeles exposes the formation of contradictions in the fabric of society, the diversity of communities, and the ongoing struggles to overcome the myriad dimensions of the inequalities that exist today. -- Thomas Patterson, University of California, Riverside This book is a must-read in the growing body of literature on postmodern Los Angeles. It offers a broad range of Angeleno experiences that challenge urban anthropology's canon with scholarship that centers on the people, and that intersects with the studies of ethnic landscapes of race, class, and gender. -- Herbert G. Ruffin II, Syracuse University; author of Uninvited Neighbors: African Americans in Silicon Valley, 1769-1990 Banh and King’s anthology is a timely and multifaceted addition to Los Angeles studies and urban anthropology. Reminiscent of editors Raúl Villa and George Sánchez’s Los Angeles and the Future of Urban Cultures (2005), the book focuses on contestations of power and space through public culture, agency, and memory. Threads of activism and intersecting identities run throughout the chapters, which range from the aftermath of the 1992 LA uprisings to the Great Wall of Los Angeles mural, urban agriculture, and models of community organizing. The book’s methodological emphasis on ground-up ethnography (including autoethnography) is one of its greatest strengths, along with interventions into scholarship of the city that has largely drawn from archives, interviews, or literary works.... [T]his is a useful volume for students and scholars of postmodern urban landscapes, as well as practitioners seeking an introduction to the heterogeneity of Los Angeles. Summing Up: Recommended. All levels/libraries. * CHOICE * This important collection on Los Angeles exposes the formation of contradictions in the fabric of society, the diversity of communities, and the ongoing struggles to overcome the myriad dimensions of the inequalities that exist today. -- Thomas Patterson, University of California, Riverside This book is a must-read in the growing body of literature on postmodern Los Angeles. It offers a broad range of Angeleno experiences that challenge urban anthropology's canon with scholarship that centers on the people, and that intersects with the studies of ethnic landscapes of race, class, and gender. -- Herbert G. Ruffin II, Syracuse University; author of Uninvited Neighbors: African Americans in Silicon Valley, 1769-1990 Author InformationJenny 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
||||
