Metropolitan Intimacies

An Ethnography on the Poetics of Daily Life

Francisco Cruces (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

216 Seiten

2022
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-3321-7 (ISBN)

Infos

In Metropolitan Intimacies: An Ethnography on the Poetics of Daily Life, Francisco Cruces examines intimacy and meaning-making in metropolitan residents’ daily lives. An ethnography based on rich micro-stories, Cruces situates life poetics amongst other metropolitan processes in three major cities—Madrid, Montevideo, and Mexico City—to reveal the complex meanings around modern urbanity.

Autor

Francisco Cruces is professor of anthropology at Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED).

Inhalt

Introduction: Something Too Good to Be Fake
Chapter 1. Getting Inspired
Chapter 2. Exploring Intimacy
Chapter 3. Stories of The Self
Chapter 4. A Visit to IKEA
Chapter 5. The Poetics of Dwelling
Conclusion: From Collaboration to Remembrance

Produkt-Details

• Erscheinungsdatum: 28.06.2022
• Reihe/Serie: Culture, Humanity, and Urban Life
• Zusatzinfo: 8 b/w illustrations; 2 tables
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 166 x 222 mm
• Gewicht: 508 g
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeine Soziologie
• ISBN-10: 1-7936-3321-5 / 1793633215
• ISBN-13: 978-1-7936-3321-7 / 9781793633217
• Zustand: Neuware