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

Published Lanham : Lexington Books, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource Contents 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 Summary "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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed Subject City and town life -- California -- Los Angeles Urban anthropology -- California -- Los Angeles Sociology, Urban -- California -- Los Angeles Place (Philosophy) -- Social aspects -- California -- Los Angeles Agent (Philosophy) -- Social aspects -- California -- Los Angeles Public spaces -- California -- Los Angeles SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban. City and town life Public spaces Race relations Social conditions Sociology, Urban Urban anthropology SUBJECT Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Social conditions Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Race relations Subject California -- Los Angeles Form Electronic book Author Banh, Jenny, editor LC no. 2017002378 ISBN 9781498528542 1498528546

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