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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792674303321

Titolo

Anthropology of Los Angeles : place and agency in an urban setting / / edited by Jenny Banh with Melissa King

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

1-4985-2855-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (261 pages)

Disciplina

306.0979494

Soggetti

Los Angeles (Calif.) Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction / Melissa King with Jenny Banh -- Hauntings of a different kind : militarized spaces and memories of containment / Jocelyn A. Pacleb -- Bicycle anthropology of Los Angeles / Adonia E. Lugo, Allison Mattheis, with Maryann Aguirre -- 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 -- Embodying democratic spaces : community organizer alternative narratives that challenge the mainstream negative stigma of South Los Angeles / George Villanueva -- Analysis of Latino-Korean relations in the workplace : Latino perspectives in the aftermath of the 1992 Los Angeles civil unrest / Kyeyoung Park -- Memory : the Angeleno Pharmakon / Charles Joseph -- Multiple ways of knowing : layers of history on the Great Wall of Los Angeles / Andrea Lepage -- Making space : ethnic towns and the racing of public space in Los Angeles / Beth F. Baker and ChorSwang Ngin -- Agro-ethnic landscapes of Los Angeles / Natale A. Zappia -- A conversation with Diego Vigil, a Los Angeles pioneer anthropologist : an anthropologist past, present, and future / Jenny Banh -- Conclusion / Jenny Banh.

Sommario/riassunto

"The Anthropology of Los Angeles : Place and Agency in an Urban Setting questions the production and representations of both the real and imagined L.A. by documenting hidden histories that portray a collision of race, class, gender, identity, food, and space"--Provided by publisher.