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Livre 2 sur 11: The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues

Lee, Anthony

 
9780801429576: Cities, Classes, and the Social Order
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0801429579 ISBN 13 : 9780801429576
Editeur : Cornell University Press, 1994

Synopsis

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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À propos de l'auteur

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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Éditeur
Cornell University Press
Date d'édition
1994
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0801429579
ISBN 13 
9780801429576
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
288
Éditeur
Sanjek Roger
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