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On the Plaza: The Politics of Public Space and Culture

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Availability:In StockContributor:Setha M. LowPublish date:2000-04-01Pages:296
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Texas PressISBN-13:9780292747142ISBN-10:292747144UPC:9780292747142Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Sociology, AnthropologySize:8.90 x 5.90 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SCXF33Z9P3

Robert B. Textor Prize for Excellence in Anticipatory Anthropology, American Anthropological Association, 2000
Honorable Mention, Victor Turner Award, Society for Humanistic Anthropology, 2001
Leeds Prize, Society of Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology, 2001

Friendly gossip, political rallies, outdoor concerts, drugs, shoeshines, and sex-for-sale--almost every aspect of Latin American life has its place and time in the public plaza. In this wide-ranging, multi-disciplinary study, Setha M. Low explores the interplay of space and culture in the plaza, showing how culture acts to shape public spaces and how the physical form of the plaza encodes the social and economic relations within its city.

Low centers her study on two plazas in San Jos?, Costa Rica, with comparisons to public plazas in the United States, Europe, and elsewhere. She interweaves ethnography, history, literature, and personal narrative to capture the ambiance and meaning of the plaza. She also uncovers the contradictory ethnohistories of the European and indigenous origins of the Latin American plaza and explains why the plaza is often a politically contested space.

Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Texas PressISBN-13:9780292747142ISBN-10:292747144UPC:9780292747142Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Sociology, AnthropologySize:8.90 x 5.90 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SCXF33Z9P3
Setha M. Low is Professor of Environmental Psychology and Anthropology and Director of the Public Space Research Group at The Graduate Center, City University of New York.
Publisher: University of Texas Press

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