Cities, Classes, and the Social Order
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8014-8168-0 (ISBN)
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.
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.
Preface by Roger Sanjek
Anthony Leeds: Life and Work
The Life of Anthony Leeds: Unity in Diversity
by R. Timothy Sieber
The Holistic Anthropology of Anthony Leeds
by Roger Sanjek
Cities [poem]
Cities in History
1. Cities and Countryside in Anthropology
2 Towns and Villages in Society: Hierarchies of Order and Cause
The FMI Helps Portugal [poem]
The Green Eye of Xerox in the Tropics [poem]
Casal Ventoso . . . [poem]
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 [poem]
São Martinho [poem]
Betrayals [poem]
Localities in Urban Systems
7. Locality Power in Relation to Supralocal Power Institutions
8. The Anthropology of Cities: Some Methodological Issues
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.6.1994 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues |
| Verlagsort | Ithaca |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 454 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8014-8168-6 / 0801481686 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8014-8168-0 / 9780801481680 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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