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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 ...
Greg Urban is an American anthropologist who specializes in indigenous peoples of South America and on general theoretical problems in linguistic and cultural anthropology. Much of his work has been oriented toward the development of a discourse-centered theory of culture. [ 1 ]
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Alba Maria Zaluar (2 June 1942 – 19 December 2019) was a Brazilian anthropologist, with emphases in urban anthropology [1] and in anthropology of violence. [2] In 1984, she obtained her PhD in social Anthropology at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro .
1972, The Anthropology of Urban Environments. with Thomas Weaver. Society for Applied Anthropology, Monograph Series. Society for Applied Anthropology, Monograph Series. 1975, Tuaraiscail: Report of the Committee on Language Attitudes Research Regarding Irish . 5 volumes. with Lilyan A. Brudner.
There are two main approaches to urban anthropology: examining the types of cities or examining the social issues within the cities. These two methods are overlapping and dependent of each other. By defining different types of cities, one would use social factors as well as economic and political factors to categorize the cities.