Urban life: readings in the anthropology of the city

Pt. 1. Urban fieldwork : anthropologists in cities. Anthropological fieldwork in cities / George M. Foster and Robert V. Kemper

Networks, neighborhoods, and markets : fieldwork in Tokyo / Theodore C. Bestor

Nomads in the city : studying Irish Travellers / Sharon Bohn Gmelch

Moscow encounters : ethnography in a global urban village / Melissa L. Caldwell

Fieldwork in the corporate offices of Jakarta, Indonesia / William Leggett

Student fieldworkers in village and city / George Gmelch and Sharon Bohn Gmelch

pt. 2. Urban communities. Urbanism as a way of life / Louis Wirth

Urban danger : life in a neighborhood of strangers / Sally Engle Merry

The edge and the center : gated communities and the discourse of urban fear / Setha M. Low

Rethinking camps : Palestinian refugees in Damascus, Syria / Nell Gabiam

In motion : transportation and knowledge in São Paulo / Derek Pardue

pt. 3. Urban structures and institutions. The culture of poverty / Oscar Lewis

How urban ethnography counters myths about the poor / Judith Goode

Office work and the crack alternative among Puerto Rican drug dealers in East Harlem / Philippe Bourgois

The view from the front desk : addressing homelessness and the homeless in Dallas / Julie Adkins

Gangs, poverty, and the future / James Diego Vigil

Civic ecology, urban elders, and New York City's community garden movement / Jay Sokolovsky

Neighbors and kin in Chinese cities / William Jankowiak

Caste, politics, and criminality in urban India / Jeffrey Witsoe

pt. 4. Migration and adaptation. The extended community : migration and transformation in Tzintzuntzan, Mexico / Robert V. Kemper

A West Indian life in Britain / George Gmelch

First Nations migration : the case of Western Canada / Martin Cooke and Danièle Bélanger

Japanese Brazilian ethnic return migration / Takeyuki (Gaku) Tsuda

Cityward migration in comparative perspective / Caroline B. Brettell and Robert V. Kemper

pt. 5. Globalization and transnationalism. Transnationalism, old and new : New York immigrants / Nancy Foner

From Cuenca, Ecuador, to New York, U.S.A. : families and transnational lives / Ann Miles

Global transactions : Sudanese refugees sending money home / Dianna J. Shandy

Hyderabad : continuities and transformations / Karen Isaksen Leonard

Beyond urban and rural communities in the 21st century / Walter P. Zenner.