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

• Pubblicazione: Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2017; ©2017
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (261 pages)
• Disciplina: 306.0979494
• Soggetto geografico: Los Angeles (Calif.) Social conditions
• Persona (resp. second.): BanhJenny; KingMelissa
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Anthropology of Los Angeles
• ISBN: 1-4985-2855-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910792674303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II