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Urban anthropology is a subset of anthropology concerned with issues of urbanization, poverty, urban space, social relations, and neoliberalism. The field has become consolidated in the 1960s and 1970s.
The Anthony Leeds Prize is awarded in his honor by the Society for Urban, National, Transnational and Global Anthropology (formerly the Society for Urban Anthropology). [3] His papers are housed at the Smithsonian's National Anthropological Archives [ 4 ] and also with the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
This collection of papers was titled Urban Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies of Urbanization (1973) and attempted to identify and characterise significant issues in urban anthropology. [10] Later that decade, Southall published a collection of essays entitled Small Urban Centers in Rural Development in Africa (1979). His essays are broken ...
Urban anthropology; C. Complex society; S. Social stratification; U. The Uses of Disorder This page was last edited on 2 August 2021, at 16:03 (UTC). Text is ...
James S. Bielo (born 1980) is an American socio-cultural anthropologist, specializing in the Anthropology of Religion, the Anthropology of Christianity, American Religion, Urban Anthropology, Linguistic Anthropology, and the study of Material Religion. He is an associate professor of Religious Studies at Northwestern University.
In 2013, she was awarded the Franz Boas Award for Exemplary Service to Anthropology from the American Anthropological Association. On May 24, 2015, Brown University awarded Lamphere an honorary doctorate (honoris causa) for her "courage in standing up for equity and fairness for all faculty and [her] exemplary examinations of urban anthropology, healthcare practices and gender issues."
Lisa Redfield Peattie (1924–2018) [1] [2] was an American anthropologist and professor of urban anthropology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.She was best known for her work in advocacy planning, a type of urban planning which seeks social change by including all interests and groups in the planning process. [3]
More broadly Low's research includes work on the anthropology of space and place, medical anthropology, urban anthropology, historic preservation, landscapes of fear, security/insecurity, and gating in Latin America, the United States, and the cities of Western Europe. Low grew up in Los Angeles and currently resides in Brooklyn.