Metropolitan Intimacies: An Ethnography on the Poetics of Daily Life

In Metropolitan Intimacies: An Ethnography on the Poetics of Daily Life, Francisco Cruces examines intimacy and meaning-making in metropolitan residents’ daily lives. An ethnography based on rich micro-stories, Cruces situates life poetics amongst other metropolitan processes in three major cities--Madrid, Montevideo, and Mexico City--to reveal the complex meanings around modern urbanity.

Francisco Cruces is professor of anthropology at Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED).