| Anthropology in the City: Methodology and Theory Contributor(s): Pardo, Italo (Editor), Prato, Giuliana B. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1409408337 ISBN-13: 9781409408338 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $135.14 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - Urban - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - General |
| Dewey: 307.76 |
| LCCN: 2012021804 |
| Physical Information: 242 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |