Urban anthropology is a subfield of anthropology concerned with looking at the city as the subject of study. The city itself can be the variable or a social group within the city could also act as the subject of study. I like the concept behind urban anthropology, and I am interested in the idea of the city being the subject of my work. I was thinking of taking specific areas of the city and concentrating on those. I’d like to incorporate this idea with night time work, not sure how exactly it would work yet. But I’m going to try it out.
“Exploring the City: Inquiries Toward an Urban Anthropology” Ulf Hannerz
Hannerz, Ulf. Exploring the City Inquiries toward an Urban Anthropology. New York: Columbia Univ., 1980. Print.
In this book Hannerz gives a good overview of the field of urban anthropology, starting from its origins and even pulling from other subfields their concepts on urban anthropology. He provides a great understanding of urbanism and its directions.
“Many anthropologists were more directly touched by developments at home, in the 1960s ethnicity and poverty were rediscovered, and in Europe at the same time. They were defined as urban problems. There was a search for new understandings and anthropologists felt they could play a part in it.”
“[Anthropologists] had specialized in ‘other cultures’ but had looked for them far away. Now they found them across the tracks.”
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