Articles | Volume 72, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-72-45-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-72-45-2017
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27 Jan 2017
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Social practices in a café: community through consumption?

Anna Marie Steigemann

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This article demonstrates with an ethnographic and praxeological analysis of one café how the social practices therein foster and generate interactions that link urban dwellers with each other and increase their place attachment as well as their senses of home and community.