Urban Life, Third Edition

Table of Contents

Part One: Urbanism

Introduction
   Walter P. Zenner and George Gmelch

Urbanism As a Way of Life
   Louis Wirth

The Urban Experience: A Psychological Analysis
   Stanley Milgram

Urban Danger: Life in a Neighborhood of Strangers
   Sally Engle Merry

The Metropolis and Everyday Life
   Robert Rotenberg

The Preindustrial City
   Gideon Sjoberg

The Preindustrial City: Reflections Four Decades Later
   Gideon Sjoberg and Andrée F. Sjoberg

Cities and Human Health
   Lawrence M. Schell

Part Two: Urban Fieldwork:Anthropologists in Cities

Introduction
   George Gmelch

Anthropological Fieldwork in Cities
   George M. Foster and Robert V. Kemper

Doing It: Urban Research in Popayan, Colombia
   Michael Whiteford

An Urban Field Experience: Irish Travellers in Dublin
   Sharon Bohn Gmelch

Part Three: Migration and the Adaptation of Migrants to City Life

Introduction
   George Gmelch

Migration and Adaptation: Tzintzuntzenos in Mexico City and Beyond
   Robert V. Kemper

Bogdan's Story: The Adaptation of a Rural Family to Yugoslavian Urban Life
   Andrei Simic

A West Indian Life in Britain
   George Gmelch

Women are Migrants Too: A Portuguese Perspective
   Caroline B. Brettell

Surviving in the City: Coping Strategies of Female Migrants in Nairobi, Kenya
   Nici Nelson

European Cyclical Migration and Economic Development: The Case of Southern Spain
   Robert Rhoades

Reflections of an Urban Anthropologist
   Walter P. Zenner

Part Four: Urban Family, Kinship, and Interpersonal Relations

Introduction
   Walter P. Zenner

The Myth of the Declining Family: Extended Family Ties Among Urban Mexican-Americans and Anglo-Americans
   Susan Emley Keefe

The Kindred of Viola Jackson: Residence and Family Organization of an Urban Black American Family
   Carol B. Stack

Urban Chinese: Family Life in a Communist Society
   William Jankowiak

Wives and Servants: Women in Middle-Class Households, Guatemala City
   Laurel Bossen

Part Five: Urban Class and Ethnicity

Introduction
   Walter P. Zenner

Coping with Poverty: A Cross-Cultural View of the Behavior of the Poor
   Edwin Eames and Judith Goode

The Culture of Poverty
   Oscar Lewis

An Anthropological Critique of the Culture of Poverty
   Judith Goode and Edwin Eames

Office Work and the Crack Alternative Among Puerto Rican Drug Dealers in East Harlem
   Philippe Bourgois

A South Indian Caste in a Bombay Slum
   Owen M. Lynch

Urban Women as Political Activists, Mérida, Yucatan, Mexico
   Kathleen Logan

The Transnational Web of Syrian-Jewish Relations
   Walter P. Zenner

Part Six: Urban Places and Spaces

Introduction
   Walter P. Zenner

Within the Wall and Beyond: Ethnicity in Harar, Ethiopia
   Sidney R. Waldron

Territoriality and Social Organization in Islamic Cities
   Janet Lippman Abu-Lughod

The Genesis and Function of Squatter Settlements in Brasilia
   David Epstein

Forging Tradition: Social Life and Identity in a Tokyo Neighborhood
   Theodore C. Bestor

Ordinary People/Everyday Life: Folk Culture in New York City
   Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett

 

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