Anthropology of Los Angeles: place and agency in an urban setting

The Anthropology of Los Angeles: Place and Agency in an Urban Setting questions the production and representations of L.A. by revealing the gray spaces between the real and imagined city. Contributors to this urban ethnography document hidden histories that portray a collision of race, class, gender, identity, food, and space. This collection connects daily actors within cultural systems to global social formations. Recommended for scholars of anthropology, history, sociology, Latin American studies, and Asian studies.