商品簡介
Wallman (anthropology, U. College London) presents a study of how relatively small communities withstand changes, especially intrusions, and why they respond differently. She considers neighborhoods from London, Rome and Zambia. The study looks at ethnicity and how it affects or doesn't affect the cohesion of local systems, migration patterns, and the relationship between terrain and community health. Combining ethnographic research, personal narrative, and quantitative measures, she shows that differences between superficially similar areas are systematic, not random. Other findings include that local systems can be classified as closed/homogeneous or open/heterogeneous systems, which affect the boundary dynamics and the potential influx of new people, ideas and disease; and that open/heterogeneous systems are more resilient to change. This is a highly organized, well-written book that is relevant to urban planners and policy analysts, as well as anthropologists. Distributed in the US by Palgrave Macmillan. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Sandra Wallman is an Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at University College London. She is the author of Kampala Women Getting by: Wellbeing in the Time of AIDS and Eight London Households.
