Urban Anthropology in Tennessee
Author : Billye S. Fogleman
Publisher :
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 50,55 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN :
Introducing Urban Anthropology
Author : Rivke Jaffe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 27,35 MB
Release : 2015-10-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317363981
Book Description
This book provides an up-to-date introduction to the important and growing field of urban anthropology. This is an increasingly critical area of study, as more than half of the world's population now lives in cities and anthropological research is increasingly done in an urban context. Exploring contemporary anthropological approaches to the urban, the authors consider: How can we define urban anthropology? What are the main themes of twenty-first century urban anthropological research? What are the possible future directions in the field? The chapters cover topics such as urban mobilities, place-making and public space, production and consumption, politics and governance. These are illustrated by lively case studies drawn from a diverse range of urban settings in the global North and South. Accessible yet theoretically incisive, Introducing Urban Anthropology will be a valuable resource for anthropology students as well as of interest to those working in urban studies and related disciplines such as sociology and geography.
Urban Anthropology
Author : Richard Gabriel Fox
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 26,51 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Book Description
Theorizing the City
Author : Setha M. Low
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 16,77 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780813527208
Book Description
Anthropological perspective are not often represented in urban studies, even though many anthropologist have been contributing actively to theory and research on urban poverty, racism, globalization, and architecture. Theorizing the City corrects this omission. Following a brief history of urban anthropology, emphasizing developments in the field during the 1990s, this volume presents twelve ethnographies of major cities in the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Europe. Five images of the city-the divided city, the contested city, the global city, the modernist city, and the postmodern city-serve as frameworks for the essays. Each section highlights current research trends such as poststructural studies of race, class and gender in the urban context; political economic studies of transnational culture; and studies of the symbolic meanings and social production of urban spaces.
Anthropology in the City
Author : Dr Giuliana B Prato
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 38,51 MB
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1409461181
Book Description
With half of humanity already living in towns and cities and that proportion expected to increase in the coming decades, society - both Western and non-Western - is fast becoming urban and even mega-urban. As such, research in urban settings is evidently timely and of great importance. Anthropology in the City brings together a leading team of anthropologists to address the complex methodological and theoretical challenges posed by field-research in urban settings, clearly identifying the significance of the anthropological paradigm in urban research and its centrality both to mainstream academic debates and to society more broadly. With essays from experts on wide-ranging ethnographic research from fields as diverse as China, Europe, India, Latin and North America and South East Asia, this book demonstrates the contribution that empirically-based anthropological analysis can make to our understanding of our increasingly urban world.
Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 47,53 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN :
Book Description
A Companion to Urban Anthropology
Author : Donald M. Nonini
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 31,61 MB
Release : 2014-03-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1118378652
Book Description
A Companion to Urban Anthropology BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO ANTHROPOLOGY A Companion to Urban Anthropology “The city is becoming the basic currency of human – and non-human – life: a pile of interconnections which makes a series of difficult wholes. This volume navigates the anthropology of this medium with the greatest aplomb.” Nigel Thrift, University of Warwick A Companion to Urban Anthropology presents original essays on central concepts in urban anthropology and ethnography. Featuring contributions from more than 25 leading international scholars in urban studies, the readings cover a wide variety of topics. Each essay explores a key phenomenon and is grounded in the author’s original research along with findings of other urbanists. Classic issues such as built structures and urban planning, community, markets, and race lead to emergent areas of study including borders, sexualities, nature, extralegality, and resilience and sustainability. A Companion to Urban Anthropology offers revealing insights into the complex forces that continue to shape the urban experience.
Archaeology of Southern Urban Landscapes
Author : Amy L Young
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 39,41 MB
Release : 2000-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0817310304
Book Description
Amy L. Young is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Southern Mississippi. ...
Exploring the City
Author : Ulf Hannerz
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 47,9 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780231083768
Book Description
A bold attempt to provide a coherent and unified theoretical understanding of urbanism that draws upon history, sociology, and geography, to bring intellectual unity to the history and development of urban anthropology.
The Urban Ethnography Reader
Author : Mitchell Duneier
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 898 pages
File Size : 15,63 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0199743576
Book Description
The Urban Ethnography Reader assembles the very best of American ethnographic writing, from classic works to contemporary research, and aims to present ethnography as social science, social history, and literature, rather than purely as a methodology.
