The People in Los Angeles Public Spaces Are Not Dead: Micro-Sociability in the Squares, Plazas, and Parks of the Postmodern Global City

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April 20, 2017

The People in Los Angeles Public Spaces Are Not Dead: Micro-Sociability in the Squares, Plazas, and Parks of the Postmodern Global City

Anthropology of Los Angeles; Place and Agency in an Urban Setting, edited by Jenny Banh and Melissa King

The People in Los Angeles Public Spaces Are Not Dead: Micro-Sociability in the Squares, Plazas, and Parks of the Postmodern Global City.

By Nathalie Boucher

Lexington Books, 2017

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.

https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498528542/Anthropology-of-Los-Angeles-Place-and-Agency-in-an-Urban-Setting

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