Houses in Motion - The Experience of Place and the Problem of Belief in Urban Malaysia

Zusatztext " Houses in Motion is a finely crafted, ethnographically accessible, and theoretically innovative piece of scholarship. It provides timely and valuable contributions to the fields of Malaysian studies, Southeast Asian studies, and urban anthropology in the first instance." Informationen zum Autor Richard Baxstrom holds the position of Lecturer in the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh. Klappentext Richard Baxstrom holds the position of Lecturer in the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh. Zusammenfassung Tells about the transformation of urban space and the reordering of the demographic character of Brickfields, one of the oldest neighborhoods in Kuala Lumpur. This book combines methods of anthropological research and an engagement with the work of theorists such as Gilles Deleuze and Henri Lefebvre.

Product details

• Authors: Richard Baxstrom
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.07.2008
• EAN: 9780804758918
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-5891-8
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Cultural Memory in the Present; Cultural Memory in the Present
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology