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Zusatztext 109955649 Informationen zum Autor Italo Pardo is Honorary Reader in Social Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology, University of Kent, UK. Giuliana B. Prato, Honorary Research Fellow, University of Kent, UK and Chair of the Commission on Urban Anthropology (IUAES). Klappentext With half of humanity already living in towns and cities and that proportion expected to increase in the coming decades, society - both Western and non-Western - is fast becoming urban and even mega-urban. As such, research in urban settings is evidently timely and of great importance. Anthropology in the City brings together a leading team of anthropologists to address the complex methodological and theoretical challenges posed by field-research in urban settings, clearly identifying the significance of the anthropological paradigm in urban research and its centrality both to mainstream academic debates and to society more broadly. Zusammenfassung Brings together a leading team of anthropologists to address the complex methodological and theoretical challenges posed by field-research in urban settings, clearly identifying the significance of the anthropological paradigm in urban research and its centrality both to mainstream academic debates and to society more broadly. Introduction: the contemporary significance of anthropology in the city, Italo Pardo and Giuliana B. Prato; Comparative reflections on fieldwork in urban India: a personal account, Jonathan Parry; Exercising power without authority: powerful elite implode in Italy, Italo Pardo; Anthropological research in Brindisi and Durres: methodological reflections, Giuliana B. Prato; Skopje as a research site: issues of methodology and representation, Ilka Theissen; Contested spaces: street vendors in the Andean metropole of Cusco, Peru, Linda J. Seligmann; Celebrating urban diversity in a rainbow nation: political management of ethno-cultural differences in a Malaysian city, Christian Giordano; political manipulation: death, dying and funeral processes in Northern Ireland, Marcello Mollica; Between the verandah and the mall: fieldwork and the spaces of femininity, Henrike Donner; On urban anthropology in contemporary China, Elisabeth L. Engebretsen; Urban anthropological research: old spaces and new ways of living, Fernando Monge; Index. ...
