February 17, 2008
( Hanging out with the ghetto’s Gordon Gekkos
The sociologist Sudhir Venkatesh spent years living with a brutal Chicago gang. He tells the forces that shaped it are spreading to Britain )

One undergraduate degree in anthropology, several beers and desultory professional exercises later ( Read more... )

You know, when I was a anthro student, I never got a chance to take a class in Urban Anthropology like I always wanted to. I'm curious to know how that area of cultral anthro is structured, what are considered important works, and what good ethnographies fall into that category. For a couple reasons I'd like to look into it now...can any of you ( Read more... )