Chercheurs

Anthropologie / LOW, SETHA

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Position

Professor of Anthropology at the City University of New York, United States.

Thèmes de recherche

Anthropology of space and place; cultural aspects of design; housing and community development, gated communities and 'landscapes of fear'; ecology and nature; medical anthropology, social distress and illness; urban anthropology; qualitative methods; historic/cultural preservation; fieldwork in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Japan, Spain, & United States.

Prix et récompenses

Publications

Books :
in progress Urban Fear: Building Fortress America.

in progress Nerves: Cultural Interpretations of Embodied Suffering. Albany: State University of New York Press.

2001 Cultural Spaces. New York: Blackwell Publishing

2000 Conversations on the Plaza: Public Space and Culture. Austin: University of Texas Press.

1999 Theorizing the City: The New Urban Anthropology Reader. New Brunswick: Rutger University Press.

1995 Children of the Urban Poor: The Sociocultural Environment of Growth, Development and Malnutrition in Guatemala City (with F. Johnston). Boulder: Westview Press.

1992 Place Attachment (Edited with I. Altman). New York: Plenum Publishing.

Articles :
in progress Ecology and Ideology: The Romance of Nature. Social Text.

in progress Corporate Landscape: Culture and Management in Social Recreation.
Landscape Journal.

in progress Strategies for Survival: Malnutrition and Domestic Economy in Guatemala City. Human Organization.

in review Closing and Disclosing Public Space. Cultural Anthropology.

in press Culture, Politics and the Plaza: An Ethnographic Approach. Aris. Special Issue on Colonialization in Architecture.

1997 Urban Fear: Building the Fortress City. City and Society Annual Review, 1997. Pps. 53-72.

1997 Theorizing the City: Ethnicity, Gender, and Globalization. Critique of Anthropology, Special issue edited by I. Susser, 17(4):403-409.

1997 Urban Public Spaces as Representations of Culture: The Plaza in Costa Rica. Environment and Behavior 29 (1): 3-33.

1996 Spatializing Culture: The Social Production and Social Construction of Public Space. American Ethnologist 23 (4): 861-879.

1996 Anthropology of Cities: Imaging and Theorizing the City. Annual Review of Anthropology 25: 383-409.

1996 The Power of Place. Critique of Anthropology, Special issue edited by I. Susser, 16(1): 57-62.

1995 Indigenous Architectural Representations: Mesoamerican and Caribbean Foundations of the Spanish American Plaza. American Anthropologist, 97(4): 748-762.

1994 Memories of Bodies, Boundaries, and Healing. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 8(4):122-124.

1994 Place Attachment in Cultural Anthropology. National Geographic Journal of India, Special Issue on Power of Place, 39 (1-4): 47-61.