Exploring the City. Inquiries Toward an Urban Anthropology

The City Unbound: Qualitative Approaches to the City

“…Positivist critiques of qualitative approaches attacked their particularity, the supposed over-identification with the subject, and the apparent partiality . Thus defined, qualitative approaches were limited to explorations of so-called urban `ways of life', although the status of these ways of life as specifically or causatively urban has long been rightly ques tioned (Gans, 1962 ;Hannerz, 1980 ;Jackson, 1985). Only recently have urbanists begun to reassess the contribution made by the Chicago School and foreground the important contributions that may be made using a specifically qualitative approach within urban studies (Hannerz, 1980 ;Hammersley and Atkinson, 1983 ;Jackson, 1985) .…”

The nostalgic construction of community: Memory and social identity in Urban Malta

“…A similar criticism has been made of the community studies orientation of urban anthropology. In that case, a focus on The Nostalgic Construction of Community g i networks has been suggested as a more accurate metaphor for urban life (Hannerz 1980). Indeed, it is through networks that people live.…”

“…The Nostalgic Construction of Community 8 3 network (Hannerz 1980(Hannerz ,1987Mullings 1987). In the city as in the countryside, these networks are cross-cut by powerful symbolic boundaries, which construct community distinctiveness in the face of incorporation.…”

Women, piety and practice: A study of women and religious practice in Malaysia

“…Ordinary Muslims would normally say, 'You don't need to tell people you are a Muslim and you don't do this and that, it shows.' Certainly, veiling is a 'visual cue' (Hannerz 1980); it is a sign which can be used by others/strangers immediately to identify Muslims by interpreting this obvious cue. The Muslim identity of a veiled woman is thus not easily open to misrecognition or misunderstanding.…”