Houses in Motion
The Experience of Place and the Problem of Belief in Urban Malaysia
Houses in Motion: The Experience of Place and the Problem of Belief in Urban Malaysia is about the transformation of urban space and the reordering of the demographic character of Brickfields, one of the oldest neighborhoods in Kuala Lumpur. Baxstrom offers an ethnographic account of the complex attempts on the part of the state and the community to reconcile techno-rational conceptions of law, development, and city planning with local experiences of place, justice, relatedness, and possibilities for belief in an aggressively changing world. The book combines classic methods of anthropological research and an engagement with the work of theor…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8047-7586-1
- EAN: 9780804775861
- Produktnummer: 23013322
- Verlag: Stanford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 304 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 663 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
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Richard Baxstrom
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