Urban Life : Readings in the Anthropology of the City

by Gmelch, George; Zenner, Walter P.; Zenner, Gmelch; Zenner, Walter P.

• ISBN13: 9781577661948
• ISBN10: 157766194X
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-08-01
• Publisher: Waveland Pr Inc

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Part 1 The City in History
Introduction	1	(2)
The Earliest Cities	3	(17)
Michael E. Smith
The Preindustrial City	20	(12)
Gideon Sjoberg
Human Health and the City	32	(21)
Lawrence M. Schell
Beyond Urban and Rural: Communities in the 21st Century	53	(12)
Walter P. Zenner
Part 2 Urbanism
Introduction	61	(4)
Urbanism as a Way of Life	65	(18)
Louis Wirth
The Urban Experience: A Psychological Analysis	83	(10)
Stanley Milgram
The Metropolis and Everyday Life	93	(13)
Robert Rotenberg
Urban Language in a Rural Setting: The Case of Phokeng, South Africa	106	(9)
Susan E. Cook
Urban Danger: Life in a Neighborhood of Strangers	115	(16)
Sally Engle Merry
Part 3 Urban Fieldwork: Anthropologists in Cities
Introduction	127	(4)
Anthropological Fieldwork in Cities	131	(15)
George M. Foster
Robert V. Kemper
Networks, Neighborhoods, and Markets: Fieldwork in Tokyo	146	(16)
Theodore C. Bestor
An Urban Field Experience: Irish Travellers in Dublin	162	(17)
Sharon Bohn Gmelch
Fieldwork on Wall Street	179	(14)
Mitchel Y. Abolafia
Part 4 Migration and the Adaptation of Migrants to City Life
Introduction	187	(6)
Migration and Adaptation: Tzintzuntzenos in Mexico City and Beyond	193	(12)
Robert V. Kemper
A West Indian Life in Britain	205	(17)
George Gmelch
Women Are Migrants Too: A Portuguese Perspective	222	(13)
Caroline B. Brettell
Surviving in the City: Coping Strategies of Female Migrants in Nairobi, Kenya	235	(18)
Nici Nelson
European Cyclical Migration and Economic Development: The Case of Southern Spain	253	(16)
Robert Rhoades
Part 5 Urban Class and Family
Introduction	265	(4)
The Culture of Poverty	269	(10)
Oscar Lewis
How Urban Ethnography Counters Myths about the Poor	279	(17)
Judith Goode
Life in a Soup Kitchen	296	(10)
Irene Glasser
Office Work and the Crack Alternative Among Puerto Rican Drug Dealers in East Harlem	306	(15)
Philippe Bourgois
Urban Chinese: Family Life in a Communist Society	321	(20)
William Jankowiak
Part 6 Globalization and Transnationalism
Introduction	337	(4)
Transnationalism, Old and New: New York Immigrants	341	(16)
Nancy Foner
Globalization, Women's Labor, and Men's Pleasure: Sex Tourism in Sosua, the Dominican Republic	357	(15)
Denise Brennan
Japanese Hip-Hop and the Globalization of Popular Culture	372	(17)
Ian Condry
About the Authors	389