Rethinking Urban Parks: Public Space and Cultural Diversity

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Built on the Johns Hopkins University Campus. This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website. Without cookies your experience may not be seamless. Public Space and Cultural Diversity. Urban parks such as New York City's Central Park provide vital public spaces where city dwellers of all races and classes can mingle safely while enjoying a variety of recreations.

By coming together in these relaxed settings, different groups become comfortable with each other, thereby strengthening their communities and the democratic fabric of society. But just the opposite happens when, by design or in ignorance, parks are made inhospitable to certain groups of people.

This pathfinding book argues that cultural diversity should be a key goal in designing and maintaining urban parks. With the wealth of data in this book, urban planners, park professionals, and all concerned citizens will have the tools to create and maintain public parks that serve the needs and interests of all the public.

List of Illustrations pp. A Note on Terminology pp. History and Social Context pp.

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Or, think of classics of the broad field such weak standing? It may be that Sharma volume well reflects some of that work. But institutional forms, though they go beyond this kind of innovative work is not properly that. The editors do sometimes address the acknowledged in the introductory text.

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The postsocialist agrarian ques- Chapter 6 , on the creation of new tion: Rural and urban construc- market Chapter 8. Basingstoke succeeds in providing a detailed and and New York: Thus, it is comparable with related Strathern, Marilyn. Kinship, law and anthropological work on the changing the unexpected.

Relatives are always a property systems in postsocialist Eurasia — surprise. Group at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, such as Cartwright ; The analysis First lesson: At the very literature, not only because the least you are volunteering yourself for some abovementioned authors present arguments very hard work. Kinship, law and the unexpected is not the differences in these postsocialist an easy book to read. Now this is not a transformations.

It shifts perspectives, through the fine-grained study of the market builds viewpoints only to demolish them a as a social construction, that the economic sentence later; it brings together an incredibly sphere is interconnected with the political and vast array of material from an equally social spheres. The book will therefore be of impressive range of areas and sources, all in a interest not only to economists, political way that can be hard to keep track of upon scientists and, hopefully, policy makers , but first reading, but which makes longer also to sociologists and anthropologists who engagement all the more revealing and are looking into the transformation of satisfactory.

The book consists of six main chapters, divided into two parts.

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The return of the peasant: Throughout, material from one area is used to Hann, C. While reading from the bridge University Press. Rather, individuals, individuality and relationships. At choice, that many commentators warn issue here is the relative importance of accompanies biotechnology. In the asks why anthropology is so focused on background are the political and ethical relationships. The answer, if I understand it questions surrounding the export of Western correctly, is to be found in ways of making property regimes and their association with knowledge that anthropology has inherited resource exploitation and colonialism in its from Enlightenment science: Evoking the case of head payments transcendental god has been rendered in Papua New Guinea and questions of body irrelevant to these questions.

Class status is ownership, as expressed for example by the linked to bodily comportment, suicide to Nuffield report on the issue, Strathern draws religion, gift giving to everything. A suggests that this way of making knowledge specific case of a young woman, seen to be may itself be rooted in certain aspects of offered as part of head payments, is reviewed. English kinship, the basic fact of which is that The case having revolved around her human out of procreative relations emerges a new rights, Strathern concludes by asking how the and unique entity.

Individuals and relations idea of human rights might sit with notions of go hand in hand. She notes the frequent between the mental and the material, and overlap in English relation being one along lines of knowledge and intellectual example, conception another between terms property. Again Melanesian material serves to to do with knowledge practices and kinship throw Western worlds into relief.

The book is to be recommended to Among her manifold sources are informants anyone with interest in kinship, law, from whom she collected some dirges and biotechnology and general anthropological lullabies, and folklore collections, published theory. At the heart of Kinship, law and the sources and stage plays. Whereas the primary unexpected is the enduring anthropological function of a lullaby is to put a baby to sleep, topic of the relation.

Indeed the second half of it is also a medium for a woman to express her the book frequently implies the importance of love for the child. Moreover, as the texts of relationality in by now well-established lullabies shows, they help to establish the anthropological fashion. The translated songs provide the reader with a There is perhaps a certain contradiction here, good impression of the content and style of tension at least.

But then that is an extremely the lullaby; however, no explanations of fruitful tension as Strathern demonstrates melody or rhythm are provided. Dirges are sung by grieving women on the occasion of death or of another Thiruchandran, Selvy.

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Feminine kind of loss, the singing being accompanied speech transmissions. An exploration into by beating the breast in tune and wailing. The author provides the reader with a well-chosen selection of Thiruchandran, Selvy. Stories from different oppari verses, which give an idea of the diaspora. Most interesting here are the accounts Pb.: ISBN 24 2. An stories and stage plays pp.

At the same time, these the self p. The theoretical grid is Tamil folklore or anthropology, since it serves eclectic, arguments are redundant and as a useful introduction and offers interesting disappointingly one-dimensional, and leave accounts and sources. Tamil women, the lives of Sri Lankan women in the form of writing looks at short stories written by Tamil a considerable number of anthropological Sri Lankan women in various countries of studies on the Tamil Sri Lankan diaspora, a exile between and It is a fairly new consideration of which might have broadened phenomenon that Sri Lankan Tamil women the picture.

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The second chapter and homogamy in a changing world. The author achieves this by retelling Vienna in It brings together the papers selected short stories and through a number of of eight of the participants and an additional quotations. These stories are about arranged chapter by Betty De Hart, rounding up the marriages, dominating husbands, ungrateful volume with a socio-legal analysis of mixed and brutish children, exploitative work marriages in nationality law and immigration conditions, sexism and racism, and most of all law p.

Chapter Three, written concerned with the institution of marriage in along the same lines, examines short stories contexts transformed by migration flows, which have been published in journals. For focusing on social reality at a micro level. The majority of the increased immigration to post-communist contributors discuss material from their own and largely monocultural EU member states. This does primarily on female agency in an immigration not mean to imply, however, that such an context.

Agency of Kosova-Albanian mothers analysis was not attempted in the selected in Switzerland is presented in the context of chapters but is simply meant to suggest that family relations and networks by Brigit the amount and relevance of presented Allenbach p. To a large cross-cultural marriages in Egypt p.

This chapter is the Despite a common thread, the chapters only one dealing with homogamy and indeed are nevertheless heterogeneous, coming from offers a significant insight into the issue, yet it various geographical and social settings and deviates from the field of migration and will exploring different types of heterogamous undoubtedly prove more useful for scholars relationships.

With one exception, i. The insights de Hart offers are shift ethnic group boundaries. Bettina Beer arguably one of the highlights of the book, explores interethnic marriages of the Wampar exploring how the legal position of nationally and their neighbours in New Guinea p. The Dutch example is used to both chapters are important, the latter goes demonstrate the developments of other further in its analysis of ethnographic material European countries in addressing the issue of obtained in the field.

It points to the relativity intermarriage. The volume presents a dominant divide is the one between Catholics refreshing insight into phenomena of and Protestants, and where interethnic intermarriage, bringing together classical marriages are of secondary importance. Sexuality and agency in a New Guinea The existence of a marginalised group, society. University of California then, must be understood in relation to the Press. Wardlow argues destructive essence. Wardlow explores the that such an arrangement is deemed equitable significance of female agency amid such by women themselves precisely because of the regimented antimonies in Wayward women, bridewealth system and their relational by carefully traversing the two potential embeddedness pp.

Put simply, women can either activities and interactions that benefit their cooperate with the social body by becoming a families, clans and society, their male kin will wali ore good woman , which requires protect and nurture them pp. Huli female sexuality, womanhood and their sexuality. With increased and responsive to the ever-changing cultural male out-migration and the monetisation of and economic forces of modernity. By since the late 19th century, showing that humiliating and economically punishing kin performance, consumption and debates about with an inverted femininity that thwarts Huli music all became key sites for enacting a gender ideals by leaving marriages, refusing to distinctly modern subjectivity.

This was an effort to show that Indian frames their agentive subjectivities as negative, traditions were intelligible to a Western given the destructive path of women scientific rationality, one that governed even symbolically removing their bodies from such matters as musical notation and listening relationality, yet remaining within the behaviour. She also, however, details the socioeconomic structures of that very society.

Rather than resolving brings them into full view to other Huli this, Weidman wrings analytical riches from women who both sneer at and long for such the tension, describing it as a socially agency. The focus on voice as a key domain for actualising postcolonial politics of music in South India. Her aim is to Pb.: Weidman representing the self. Instead, she argues that brings postcolonial theory to bear upon the deployment of the voice itself is enabled music, a field of endeavour largely neglected and constrained by particular, historically by postcolonial scholarship in general.

Nevertheless, she details two use of the term, and what the specific relation distinct discourses of voice, one describing it is between them. With social body, via oral history. As with the no sustained musical description, no notated double discourse mentioned above, Weidman examples except those that serve as examples allows this tension to stand, showing how it of notational practice , and no discography or sustains discussions about the nature of listening recommendations, the non-specialist Indian musical modernity.

She begins one wonders why the music is slighted while by describing the local adoption of the the discourse is not. Western-classical violin as a precursor to later Finally, given that her work strikes an appropriations of classicism. Though claiming to radically 20th-century Madras, providing a ground for challenge the terms of the field, her approach staging such accoutrements of modernity as is by and large as commonplace in concert series and concert behaviour.

Her contemporary ethnomusicology as in third chapter demonstrates that performance anthropology and cultural studies. The last two landmark Juju:

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