George Gmelch
Author of Urban Life: Readings in the Anthropology of the City (4th Edition)
About the Author
George Gmelch is Roger Thayer Stone Professor of Anthropology at Union College in Schenectady, New York.
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- Canonical name
- Gmelch, George
- Gender
- male
- Education
- Stanford University
University of California, Santa Barbara - Occupations
- professor (University of San Francisco)
- Relationships
- Gmelch, Sharon (wife)
- Short biography
- [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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This is an oral history of baseball that would have been MUCH better had even the minimal amount of editing had been done on the manuscript. Names are misspelled or even wrong. I mean, how does *that* happen? I mean, if the interviews are transcribed directly as given and the principal makes a mistake, that's one thing, but then again, why would someone even let that stand?
Readable & fascinating. A behind-the-scenes look at the subtle & blatent realities of tourism as experienced by the people who work in the tourism industry. In the Caribbean, this prominently includes issues of race, class, & nationality.
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