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Pages: 288
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Publication Date: April 15,2000
Category: Geography
Champion, Robert B. Textor Prize for Excellence in Anticipatory Anthropology, American Anthropological Association, 2000
Honorable Mention, Honorable Point out, Victor Turner Award, Culture for Humanistic Anthropology, 2001
Leeds Prize, Culture of Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology, 2001
Friendly gossip, political rallies, outdoor concerts, medications, shoeshines, and sex-for-sale—nearly every facet of Latin American existence provides its place and amount of time in the general public plaza.
Low centers her research on two plazas in San José, Costa Rica, with comparisons to open public plazas in the usa, Europe, and somewhere else. Low explores the interplay of space and lifestyle in the plaza, displaying how lifestyle acts to shape open public spaces and the way the physical type of the plaza encodes the interpersonal and financial relations within its town. In this wide-ranging, multi-disciplinary research, Setha M. She interweaves ethnography, background, literature, and personal narrative to fully capture the atmosphere and indicating of the plaza.
She also uncovers the contradictory ethnohistories of the European and indigenous origins of the Latin American plaza and clarifies why the plaza is usually a politically contested space.