Lessons About Projecting the Metropolis

Authors

  • Dana Cuff University of California, Los Angeles

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17454/ARDETH02.15

Keywords:

urban humanities, urban anthropology, representation, cityLAB, spatial ethnography

Abstract

The city is an object of study, a site of practice, a material artifact of power, and the locus of the imaginary. It is a cultural formation, warranting attention from anthropologists along with many others. It eludes disciplining. It resists singular descriptions. It condemns us to work together. This essay considers the particular ways in which the city can serve as an object of scholarly investigation, dealing with research experiences carried out at UCLA and setting new methodological proposals in the field of spatial ethnography.

Author Biography

Dana Cuff, University of California, Los Angeles

University of California, Los Angeles – dcuff@aud.ucla.edu

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Published

05/23/2018

Issue

No. 02: (Spring 2018) | BOTTEGA

Section

Solicited Manuscript