The Go-Along Method

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Prologue. Learning to Observe in Chicago 7
4. Introduction 10
5. Anthropology in the City
6. Urban Ethnography 17
7. Norman’s Bay 41
8. Inscriptions of Love 44
9. Ann Arbor 73
10. My Mexican Friend Marta Who Lives Across the Border from Me in Detroit 76
11. Berlin 85
12. Carrot-Cut Jeans: An Ethnographic Account of Assertiveness, Embarrassment and Ambiguity in the Figuration of Working-Class Male Youth Identities in Berlin 88
13. London 111
14. Anthropology of the City
15. The Imaginary of the City 114
16. Millbrook 121
17. The City as Melodrama 124
18. Toward a Sensorial Urbanism 141
19. The Go-Along Method 154
20. Chicago’s South Side 159
21. Urban Desolation and Symbolic Denigration in the Hyperghetto 162
22. Epilogue
23. Doing an Ethnography of “Non-Events” 173
24. Out in the Field – Comics for an Urban Anthropology 183
25. Acknowledgements, References 185
26. Authors 186
27. Backmatter 190