A companion to urban anthropology / edited by Donald M. Nonini.
Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester [etc.] : 2014.
xv, 515 p. : il., map.
ISBN 9781444330106Antropología urbana. Sbc Aprendizaje A-316.334.56 COMhttp://millennium.ehu.es/record=b1799480~S1*spi
“A Companion to Urban Anthropology” presents a collection of original essays from international scholars on key issues in urban anthropology and broader cross-disciplinary urban studies.
- Features newly commissioned essays from 35 leading international
scholars in urban and global studies
- Includes essays in classic areas of concern to urban anthropologists
such as built structures and urban planning, community, security, markets, and
race
- Covers emergent areas in the field including: 21st-century cities
borders, citizenship, sustainability, and urban sexualities
Preface / Don Nonini · Durham, North Carolina
In
the course of completing this book, I have incurred many debts, personal and
professional. It is impossible to thank everyone who has contributed to bringing
this book to fruition, but certain people have played a major role in the
process. First, there are the contributors of the 28 concept essays in this book
who have worked brilliantly to reconceptualize an urban anthropology for the
twenty-first century, as articulated in the original scholarship manifested here. Reading their work has been an extraordinary education, both pleasurable
and exciting. I will always be thankful for the privilege. I am confident that the readers will
enjoy and learn much from their work as well.
I have other debts to acknowledge.
In late 2008 at the American
Anthropological Association’s Annual Meeting, Wiley Blackwell’s Rosalie
Robertson, Senior Commissioning Editor, listened very thoughtfully and then
with increasing enthusiasm as I proposed the fundamental framework for this
book, and since then has been supportive every step of the way, with patience,
great good humor, and faith in the project. Jen Bray, Project Editor in
Anthropology for Wiley Blackwell in Boston, also provided assistance and
encouragement at a time when it was very much needed. In September 2012, when I
wondered whether or not a work involving 28 authors on a vast array of topics
in urban anthropology would ever see the light of day, Rosalie and Jen came to
my aid with suggestions that were invaluable, and gave me the boost that pushed
me to find the last few contributors, complete the editing process, and present
the manuscript to Wiley Blackwell in July 2013. The encouragement of
both was crucial. I also wish to thank Ben Thatcher, Project Editor for the
Social Sciences in Wiley Blackwell’s
Oxford office, Sarah Dancy
and Tessa Hanford for helping with the final steps toward publishing the book,
and Allison Kostka, Wiley Blackwell’s Senior Editorial Assistant, who helped me
in numerous ways in an earlier stage of the work.
Malena Rousseau, Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology at
the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has played an invaluable role,
acting as an assistant editor in the later stages of the editing process. I
could not have acted as efficiently, with as much intellectual insight, or in
as good spirits, without her assistance and enthusiasm.
Finally, I would be remiss not to acknowledge Sandy
Smith-Nonini. Her magnificent patience and indulgence toward my protracted
“present absence” were often tested as I worked to bring this book to fruition
in my study. I am grateful beyond words for her efforts in extracting me from
it while reminding me of why the work mattered – up to a point! Her presence
and understanding have made it all worthwhile.
