George Gmelch
Autore di Urban Life: Readings in the Anthropology of the City
Sull'Autore
George Gmelch is Roger Thayer Stone Professor of Anthropology at Union College in Schenectady, New York.
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- Nome canonico
- Gmelch, George
- Sesso
- male
- Istruzione
- Stanford University
University of California, Santa Barbara - Attività lavorative
- professor (University of San Francisco)
- Relazioni
- Gmelch, Sharon (wife)
- Breve biografia
- [from University of San Francisco website]
He is a cultural anthropologist who studies culture change, migration, mobile workers, tourism, and sport cultures. He has done long term field research among Irish Travellers, English Gypsies, Alaskan natives, Caribbean villagers and tourism workers, and return migrants in Ireland, Newfoundland and Barbados. He is the author of 13 books and has written widely for general audiences, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, Psychology Today, and Natural History. His Irish research has been the subject of an acclaimed documentary film Unsettled: From Tinkers to Travellers.
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- Opere
- 13
- Utenti
- 237
- Popolarità
- #95,614
- Voto
- 3.4
- Recensioni
- 1
- ISBN
- 40