Being Alone Together: From Solidarity to Solitude in Urban Anthropology.
The characteristic urban experience of solitude challenges traditional anthropological theories of urban life. This article surveys urban theories that treat solitude primarily as loneliness, anomie, and social disorder. It then challenges these theoretical perspectives with ethnographic cases of ga...
| Publicado en: | Anthropological Quarterly Vol. 82; no. 3; pp. 755 - 778 |
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George Washington Institute for Ethnographic Research
Summer 2009
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