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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"urban anthropology"”.
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Xhosa in town revisited : from urban anthropology to an anthropolgy of urbanism
Bibliography: leaves 274-296.
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Passado e presente das relações da Gamboa de Baixo com seu entorno e a luta de seus moradores pela sobrevivência no espaço
… locality, in Salvador, the present study of urban anthropology seeks to understand the situation of the Gamboa de Baixo community, located in that same historical area. Initially, the dissertation examined how, since colonial Brazil, Gamboa's relationship took place with the rest of the city. …
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Transforming the City. An Ethnography of Contested Public Space in Venezuela
<p>My research falls within urban anthropology, as it examines how supporters and opponents of the Venezuelan government have manipulated symbols in attempting to control certain public places in Venezuela's capital city, Caracas. My thesis is that by using public places to advance their respective …
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Re-situating and shifting cultural identity in contemporary Namibia: the experience of rural-urban migrants in Katutura (Windhoek)
… Namibian youth culture, which cuts across rural-urban, ethnic, and socio-economic divides. I argue that young migrants from Ovamboland, who intend to escape their poverty stricken rural homes and arrive on packed busses, bringing with them few possessions and great expectations, constantly shift …
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Perimeters, Performances and Perversity: The Creation and Success of a Gay Community in Madrid, Spain
… identity in Madrid and Spain. By "reading" the urban space and coupling that reading with information gathered from ethnographic and historical methodologies, my work sheds light on the role of globalization in sexual identity, draws connections between changes in socio-political circumstances …
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The Marginal Public: Marginality, Publicness, and Heterotopia in the Space of the City
This thesis explores the experiences of an urban population who are considered to exist at the social margins of society, but who paradoxically spend much of their time in urban public space. Often referred to as ‘street people,’ the issues they face, such as homelessness and drug addiction, become …
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Critique and Neoliberalism's Critics: Art, Activism, and Uncertainty in Post-Recession Dublin
This dissertation sets forth a call for an anthropology of forms of critique and critical thinking as a generative site for political anthropological theory, and itself offers an initial answer to that call. It makes its case from the ground up, originating in an ethnographic account of a group of …