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FRANCO SILVA, FRANCISCO JAVIER  y  PEREZ SALAZAR, LUZ MAGNOLIA. PRODUCTION OF CITY, DAILY LIFE AND POPULAR CULTURES: A PRELIMINARY REVISION. Investig. desarro. [online]. 2008, vol.16, n.1, pp.58-81. ISSN 0121-3261.

This article offers an overview of the numerous works from the fields of urbanism and urban anthropology that had analyzed topics and phenomena related to the production of cities, everyday life and popular culture. The author tries to focus on the ways the city is shape from the "barrios". The range of this essay spans the birth of the genre in the Chicago school and the founding literature from Latin America to the most notorious works made in Colombia. In this last regard the author acknowledges the still important discussion of the anthropology in the city vs. anthropology of the city. The article gives a sense of the future enterprises about the convenience of studying the birth of new subjectivities in the urban realm and the conflicts between the traditional perspectives and the discourses and modernity praxis.

Palabras clave : Urbanism; urban anthropology; popular cultures; daily life; city-districts.

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