{"product_id":"anthropology-of-los-angeles-9781498528535","title":"Anthropology of Los Angeles","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Anthropology of Los Angeles: Place and Agency in an Urban Setting questions the production and representations of L.A. by revealing the gray spaces between the real and imagined city. Contributors to this urban ethnography document hidden histories that connect daily actors within cultural systems to global social formations. This diverse collection is recommended for scholars of anthropology, history, sociology, race studies, gender studies, food studies, Latin American studies, and Asian studies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBanh and King’s anthology is a timely and multifaceted addition to Los Angeles studies and urban anthropology. Reminiscent of editors Raúl Villa and George Sánchez’s Los Angeles and the Future of Urban Cultures (2005), the book focuses on contestations of power and space through public culture, agency, and memory. Threads of activism and intersecting identities run throughout the chapters, which range from the aftermath of the 1992 LA uprisings to the Great Wall of Los Angeles mural, urban agriculture, and models of community organizing. The book’s methodological emphasis on ground-up ethnography (including autoethnography) is one of its greatest strengths, along with interventions into scholarship of the city that has largely drawn from archives, interviews, or literary works.... [T]his is a useful volume for students and scholars of postmodern urban landscapes, as well as practitioners seeking an introduction to the heterogeneity of Los Angeles. Summing Up: Recommended. All levels\/libraries. * CHOICE *\u003cbr\u003eThis important collection on Los Angeles exposes the formation of contradictions in the fabric of society, the diversity of communities, and the ongoing struggles to overcome the myriad dimensions of the inequalities that exist today. -- Thomas Patterson, University of California, Riverside\u003cbr\u003eThis book is a must-read in the growing body of literature on postmodern Los Angeles. It offers a broad range of Angeleno experiences that challenge urban anthropology's canon with scholarship  that centers on the people, and that intersects with the studies of ethnic landscapes of race, class, and gender. -- Herbert G. Ruffin II, Syracuse University; author of Uninvited Neighbors: African Americans in Silicon Valley, 1769-1990\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword Yolanda T. Moses  Acknowledgments   Introduction Melissa King with Jenny Banh  Chapter 1 Hauntings of a Different Kind: Militarized Spaces and Memories of Containment Jocelyn Pacleb   Chapter 2 Bicycle Anthropology of Los Angeles Adonia Lugo, Allison Mattheis, with Maryann Aguirre    Chapter 3 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  Chapter 4 Embodying Democratic Spaces: Community Organizer Alternative Narratives That Challenge the Mainstream Negative Stigma of South Los Angeles George Villanueva  Chapter 5 Analysis of Latino-Korean Relations in the Workplace: Latino Perspectives in the Aftermath of the 1992 Los Angeles Civil Unrest Kyeyoung Park  Chapter 6 Memory: The Angeleno Pharmakon Charles Joseph   Chapter 7 Multiple Ways of Knowing: Layers of History on The Great Wall of Los Angeles Andrea Lepage  Chapter 8 Making Space: Ethnic Towns and the Racing of Public Space in Los Angeles Beth F. Baker and ChorSwang Ngin   Chapter 9 Agro-Ethnic Landscapes of Los Angeles Natale Zappia  Chapter 10 A Conversation with Diego Vigil a Los Angeles Pioneer Anthropologist: An Anthropologist  Past, Present, and Future Jenny Banh  Conclusion Jenny Banh","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040694665559,"sku":"9781498528535","price":89.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781498528535.jpg?v=1750947541","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/anthropology-of-los-angeles-9781498528535","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}