Urban anthropology
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- For the journal, see Urban Anthropology
Urban anthropology is a branch of anthropology that focuses on cultural and social processes in urban areas.
A relatively new subfield that emerged in the 1960s and 70s, urban anthropology is often concerned with issues of urbanization, poverty, and neoliberalism. Ulf Hannerz quotes a 1960s remark that anthropologists were "a notoriously agoraphobic lot, anti-urban by definition". Various social processes in the Western World as well as in the "Third World" (the latter being the habitual focus of attention of anthropologists) brought the attention of "specialists in 'other cultures'" closer to their homes. [1]
[edit] Further reading
- Basham, Richard (1978) "Urban Anthropology. The Cross-Cultural Study of Complex Societies", Mayfield Publishing Company.
- Fox, Richard G. (1977) "Urban Anthropology. Cities in their Cultural Settings", Prentice-Hall.
- Ulf Hannerz (1980) Exploring the City: Inquiries Toward an Urban Anthropology, ISBN 0231083769
- Gregory Eliyu Guldin, Aidan William Southall (eds.) (1993) Urban Anthropology in China, ISBN 9004081011
- Jacqueline Knörr (2007) Kreolität und postkoloniale Gesellschaft. Integration und Differenzierung in Jakarta, Frankfurt & New York: Campus Verlag, ISBN 978-3-593-38344-6
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