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Google Preview: 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.; 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 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; Download; Google Preview content

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