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On the Plaza - The Politics of Public Space and Culture (Paperback, New)
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On the Plaza - The Politics of Public Space and Culture (Paperback, New)
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Robert B. Textor Prize for Excellence in Anticipatory Anthropology,
American Anthropological Association, 2000 Honorable Mention,
Victor Turner Award, Society for Humanistic Anthropology, 2001
Leeds Prize, Society of Urban, National, and Transnational/Global
Anthropology, 2001 Friendly gossip, political rallies, outdoor
concerts, drugs, shoeshines, and sex-for-sale-almost every aspect
of Latin American life has its place and time in the public plaza.
In this wide-ranging, multi-disciplinary study, Setha M. Low
explores the interplay of space and culture in the plaza, showing
how culture acts to shape public spaces and how the physical form
of the plaza encodes the social and economic relations within its
city. Low centers her study on two plazas in San Jose, Costa Rica,
with comparisons to public plazas in the United States, Europe, and
elsewhere. She interweaves ethnography, history, literature, and
personal narrative to capture the ambiance and meaning of the
plaza. She also uncovers the contradictory ethnohistories of the
European and indigenous origins of the Latin American plaza and
explains why the plaza is often a politically contested space.
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