ANTH 4701 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Ulf Hannerz, Urban Anthropology, Urban Area
Document Summary
More than half of the world"s population now lives in cities. The urban as its object of study, understanding the city more as a set of processes than as a setting and taking its material and spatial form into explicit account. Changing nature of urban social life, the influence of urban space and place, and more broadly what constitutes a city in the global contest of global flows and connections. What makes their work urban anthropology is their explicit reflection on the implications of the urban context in which these phenomena occur. Why urban anthropology: global processes of rapid urbanization, 19th century europe = rapid, large-scale urbanization (industrial. Revolution: city typologies - ulf hannerz, ceremonial cities - concentration of political and ceremonial power, trade cities - marketplace played crucial role. Industrial city - economic basis in manufacturing: shifts within broader anthropology, anthropology"s earliest roots in colonialism. Insistence on understanding people and social situations in their full complexity.
