Full Description
The 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.
Contents
Foreword
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
