Lessons About Projecting the Metropolis
The city is an object of study, a site of practice, a material artifact of power, and the locus of the imaginary. It is a cultural formation, warranting attention from anthropologists along with many others. It eludes disciplining. It resists singular descriptions. It condemns us to work together. T...
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| Udgivet i: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ardeth, |
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| Format: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Sprog: | Anglais |
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Ardeth
2020
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| Online adgang: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Summary: | The city is an object of study, a site of practice, a material artifact of power, and the locus of the imaginary. It is a cultural formation, warranting attention from anthropologists along with many others. It eludes disciplining. It resists singular descriptions. It condemns us to work together. This essay considers the particular ways in which the city can serve as an object of scholarly investigation, dealing with research experiences carried out at UCLA and setting new methodological proposals in the field of spatial ethnography. |
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