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Cities, Classes, and the Social Order (Anthropology of Contemporary Issues) - Softcover

Buch 2 von 11: The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues

Leeds, Anthony

 
9780801481680: Cities, Classes, and the Social Order (Anthropology of Contemporary Issues)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0801481686 ISBN 13: 9780801481680
Verlag: Cornell University Press, 1994

Inhaltsangabe

Cities, Classes, and the Social Order brings together nine conceptual and theoretical essays by the anthropologist, Anthony Leeds (1925–1989), whose 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.

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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Roger Sanjek is Professor of Anthropology at Queens College, City University of New York. He is the the author of The Future of Us All and the editor of Fieldnotes: The Makings of Anthropology, both from Cornell.

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Verlag
Cornell University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1994
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0801481686
ISBN 13 
9780801481680
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
288
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