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UNINA9910812525203321 |
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Titolo |
Anthropology of Los Angeles : place and agency in an urban setting / / edited by Jenny Banh with Melissa King |
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Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2017 |
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©2017 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (261 pages) |
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Soggetti |
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Los Angeles (Calif.) Social conditions |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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"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. |
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