| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 272 pages) : illustrations |
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Anthropology of contemporary issues |
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Anthropology of contemporary issues.
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| Contents |
Preface / Roger Sanjek -- The Life of Anthony Leeds: Unity in Diversity / R. Timothy Sieber -- The Holistic Anthropology of Anthony Leeds / Roger Sanjek -- Cities -- 1. Cities and Countryside in Anthropology -- 2. Towns and Villages in Society: Hierarchies of Order and Cause. The FMI Helps Portugal. The Green Eye of Xerox in the Tropics. Casal Ventoso ... -- 3. Mythos and Pathos: Some Unpleasantries on Peasantries -- 4. Economic-Social Changes and the Future of the Middle Class -- 5. Some Problems in the Analysis of Class and the Social Order -- 6. Marx, Class, and Power. When the Gulls Fly, the Tempest Comes. Sao Martinho. Betrayals -- 7. Locality Power in Relation to Supralocal Power Institutions -- 8. The Anthropology of Cities: Some Methodological Issues |
| Summary |
"Cities, Classes, and the Social Order brings together nine conceptual and theoretical essays by a leading anthropologist, Anthony Leeds (1925-1989). Leeds's pioneering work in the anthropology of complex societies was built on formative personal and research experiences in both urban and rural settings in the United States, Brazil, Venezuela, and Portugal. Inspired by Karl Marx and Alfred Kroeber, he developed a protean vision of culture, power, and the social order, and his work represents an outstanding synthesis that is relevant to current attempts at reintegrating a balkanized anthropology and to other social and human sciences." "Leeds brought to his anthropology a simultaneous concern for science and humanism, and for explanation and interpretation. He constructed a nuanced and intricate vision of the connections among ecology, technology, history, evolution, structure, process, power, culture, social organization, and human creativity. The essays in this book draw on his approach to demarcate the role of cities in human history, the use and abuse of class analysis, the bases of power in complex societies, and an agenda for ethnographic and social-historical research in the contemporary world." "In addition to major but little-known writings and an important essay on Marx here published for the first time in English, a selection of Leeds's ethnographically and politically inspired poems are included, as are several of his professionally exhibited photographs. In addition, introductory essays by R. Timothy Sieber and Roger Sanjek chart the course of Leeds's career and the development of his theoretical viewpoint."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-265) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Leeds, Anthony 1925-1989 gnd |
| Subject |
Urban anthropology.
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Cities and towns.
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Sociology, Urban.
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Social classes.
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Cities
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Social Class
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cities.
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urban sociology.
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social classes.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Social Classes & Economic Disparity.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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Cities and towns
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Social classes
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Sociology, Urban
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Urban anthropology
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Anthropologie
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Klassentheorie
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Sozialanthropologie
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Soziale Klasse
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Sozialordnung
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Stadt
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Stadtforschung
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Stad en platteland.
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Stadscultuur.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Sanjek, Roger, 1944-
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| ISBN |
9781501713729 |
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1501713728 |
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