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...

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Published in:	Anthropological Quarterly Vol. 82; no. 3; pp. 755 - 778
Main Author:	Coleman, Leo
Format:	Article
Published:	George Washington Institute for Ethnographic Research Summer 2009
Subjects:	Urban anthropology Solitude Solidarity Gay people India
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost