Sensing the City: A Companion to Urban Anthropology

by Anja Schwanhausser (Editor)

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.

192 pages, ebook

Published January 29, 2016

Reviews

[Kyra · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ruth Behar und Les Backs Essays haben mir besonders gut gefallen.
Sie schreiben so intim, persönlich und setzten ihr eigenes Leben in einen kulturellen Kontext ohne dass es kitschig ist sondern einfach nur berührend und inspirierend.

Les Backs Analyse von Tattoo-Kultur in England im Zusammenhang mit Liebe, Sprache, Klasse und dem Körper als "political field" war super interessant und hat eine neue Perspektive für mich eröffnet.