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Cities, Classes, and the Social Order » Read Now
by Anthony Leeds, Roger Sanjek. 272 pgs.

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Urban Danger: Life in a Neighborhood of Strangers » Read Now
by Sally Engle Merry. 288 pgs.

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Urban Ethnic Encounters: The Spatial Consequences » Read Now
by Aygen Erdentug, Freek Colombijn. 256 pgs.

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This new study attempts to answer the two leading questions of how urban space structures the life of ethnic groups and how ethnic diversity helps to shape urban space.
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Urban Structure: The Social and Spatial Character of Cities » Read Now
by Ralph Thomlinson. 356 pgs.

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Sustainable Cities: Urbanization and the Environment in International Perspective » Read Now
by Richard Stren, Rodney White, Joseph Whitney. 376 pgs.

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Towns and Cities: Competing for Survival » Read Now
by Angus McIntosh. 176 pgs.

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Urban Anthropology: Perspectives on Third World Urbanisation and Urbanism » Read Now
by Richard G. Fox. 192 pgs.

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Braving a New World: Cambodian (Khmer) Refugees in an American City » Read Now
by MaryCarol Hopkins. 188 pgs.

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This ethnography, based on a five-year field study, presents a holistic view of a nearly invisible ethnic minority in the urban Midwest, Cambodian refugees. Hopkins begins with a brief look at Cambodian history and the reign which led these farmers to flee their homeland, and then presents an...
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This ethnography, based on a five-year field study, presents a holistic view of a nearly invisible ethnic minority in the urban Midwest, Cambodian refugees. Hopkins begins with a brief look at Cambodian history and the reign which led these farmers to flee their homeland, and then presents an intimate portrait of ordinary family life and also of Buddhist ceremonial life. The book details their struggles to adjust in the face of the many barriers presented by American urban life, such as poverty, dangerous neighborhoods, and unemployment, and also by the conflict between their particular needs and American institutions such as schools, health care, law, and even the agencies intended to help them.
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Net Curtains and Closed Doors: Intimacy, Family, and Public Life in Dublin » Read Now
by Elizabeth A. Throop. 196 pgs.

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It has been argued that the family is a clearly bounded center of love and emotion in the lives of people. It is a center which is separate from more "public" arenas. The Irish family, however, has until recently had neither clear boundaries nor overt emotional nurturance, largely due to English...
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It has been argued that the family is a clearly bounded center of love and emotion in the lives of people. It is a center which is separate from more "public" arenas. The Irish family, however, has until recently had neither clear boundaries nor overt emotional nurturance, largely due to English Colonialism and the influences of the Catholic Church upon Irish culture. This book examines the urban Irish family and argues that the contrasts between family and public lives are not as great as is normally assumed.
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Invoking Fannie Lou Hamer: Research, Ethnography and Activism in Low-Income Communities, in Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development » Read Now
by Cheryl Rodriguez. 21 pgs.

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