Africa And Urban Anthropology

Author : Deborah Pellow,Suzanne Scheld
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000684278

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Africa and Urban Anthropology by Deborah Pellow,Suzanne Scheld Pdf

This volume offers valuable anthropological insight into urban Africa, covering a range of cities across a continent that has become one of the fastest urbanizing geographic areas of the globe. Consideration is given to the structures, social formations, and rhythms that constitute the definition of an African city, town, or urban space, and to current concepts for thinking about African cities in the twenty-first century. The contributors examine topics including notions of belonging, the effects of globalization, colonialism, and transnationalism on African urban life, the cultural dimensions of infrastructure and public resources, mobility, labor issues, spatial organization, language, and popular culture trends, among other themes. The book reflects on how the ethnography of urban Africa fits within anthropology and urban studies, and on new theoretical concepts and methodologies that can be created through anthropological fieldwork in African cities. It will be of particular interest to scholars and students from anthropology, African studies and urban studies, as well as sociology and geography.

Author : Katja Werthmann
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000603002

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City Life in Africa by Katja Werthmann Pdf

This book introduces readers to the anthropology of urban life in Africa, showing what ethnography can teach us about African city dwellers’ own notions, practices, and reflections. Social anthropologists have studied city life in Africa since the early 20th century. Their works have addressed a number of questions that are relevant until today: What happens to rural people who move to the city? What kinds of livelihoods do they pursue? How does city life affect moralities and practices connected with gender roles, marriage, parenthood, and intergenerational relations? In which social situations are ethnic and other collective identifications relevant? How do people make a home in the city? What forms of authority and leadership become relevant in urban governance? How do people talk about city life? This book asks what anthropologists have come to learn about Africans’ views on city life. It provides a critical acclaim of ethnographies in English, French, and German and elucidates anthropology’s contribution to understanding city life in Africa. It highlights the significance of female, African and Diaspora scholars for an emerging urban anthropology of Africa. The chapters are organized according to everyday activities of city dwellers: moving, connecting, governing, working, dwelling, and wayfinding. The book will be an essential read for students and researchers of social anthropology, African and urban studies, but also for professionals in research and development organizations, thinktanks, and other institutions concerned with urban Africa.

Author : Peter Claus Wolfgang Gutkind
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015006795812

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Urban Anthropology by Peter Claus Wolfgang Gutkind Pdf

Author : Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Anthropology
ISBN : UCAL:B3916379

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Urban Anthropology; Cross-cultural Studies of Urbanization by Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Pdf

Bibliography by P.C.W. Gutkind annotated separately.

Author : Ghaus Ansari,P. J. M. Nas
Publisher : Brill Archive
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9004070230

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Town-Talk by Ghaus Ansari,P. J. M. Nas Pdf

Author : George Gmelch,Petra Kuppinger
Publisher : Waveland Press
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478636908

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Urban Life by George Gmelch,Petra Kuppinger Pdf

More than half of the world’s population lives in cities. What are their lives like in very different global and globalizing cities? How can urban anthropologists study and understand the diverse and complex experiences of urban dwellers all over the globe? The latest edition of Urban Life explores questions about how to study urban lives and examines experiences of urban inhabitants in cities across the globe. Authors ask questions such as, how can one study the activities in a huge fish market in Tokyo? How do elderly residents benefit from urban agriculture in New York City? How do people maneuver ever-present traffic jams in Istanbul? How do low-income residents in Cairo manage their lives drawing on neighborhood social networks? How do immigrants fight for green spaces in Paris? How do families manage transnational ties between New York City and Ecuador? The book is organized into six parts: Urban Fieldwork; Communities; Urban Structure, Inequality, and Survival; Immigrants, Migrants, and Refugees; Changing Cities; and Current Topics in Urban Anthropology. The last part addresses issues at the forefront of anthropological research and broader political debates, like environmental justice, disability and accessibility, and access to water supplies. Each part includes an introduction and each chapter is preceded by notes about its context and relevance. The rich ethnographic content of the chapters makes them highly accessible to students while addressing relevant topics and themes.

Author : Southern Anthropological Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Anthropology
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037489619

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Urban Anthropology by Southern Anthropological Society Pdf

Author : Donald M. Nonini
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781118378656

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A Companion to Urban Anthropology by Donald M. Nonini Pdf

A Companion to Urban Anthropology BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO ANTHROPOLOGY A Companion to Urban Anthropology “The city is becoming the basic currency of human – and non-human – life: a pile of interconnections which makes a series of difficult wholes. This volume navigates the anthropology of this medium with the greatest aplomb.” Nigel Thrift, University of Warwick A Companion to Urban Anthropology presents original essays on central concepts in urban anthropology and ethnography. Featuring contributions from more than 25 leading international scholars in urban studies, the readings cover a wide variety of topics. Each essay explores a key phenomenon and is grounded in the author’s original research along with findings of other urbanists. Classic issues such as built structures and urban planning, community, markets, and race lead to emergent areas of study including borders, sexualities, nature, extralegality, and resilience and sustainability. A Companion to Urban Anthropology offers revealing insights into the complex forces that continue to shape the urban experience.

Author : Italo Pardo,Giuliana B. Prato
Publisher : Springer
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319642895

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The Palgrave Handbook of Urban Ethnography by Italo Pardo,Giuliana B. Prato Pdf

These ethnographically-based studies of diverse urban experiences across the world present cutting edge research and stimulate an empirically-grounded theoretical reconceptualization. The essays identify ethnography as a powerful tool for making sense of life in our rapidly changing, complex cities. They stress the point that while there is no need to fetishize fieldwork—or to view it as an end in itself —its unique value cannot be overstated. These active, engaged researchers have produced essays that avoid abstractions and generalities while engaging with the analytical complexities of ethnographic evidence. Together, they prove the great value of knowledge produced by long-term fieldwork to mainstream academic debates and, more broadly, to society.

Author : Abner Cohen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136523175

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Custom and Politics in Urban Africa by Abner Cohen Pdf

Based on Cohen's fieldwork in the 1960s among the Hausa migrants, a people of the Yoruba area (then the western region of the Federation of Nigeria), Custom and Politics in Urban Africa looks at how ethnic groups use elements of tradition in jostling for power and privilege in new urban situations. This is a landmark work in urban anthropology and provides a comparative framework for studying political processes in African societies.

Author : Barbara Heer
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783732847976

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Cities of Entanglements by Barbara Heer Pdf

How do people live together in cities shaped by inequality? This comparative ethnography of two African cities, Maputo and Johannesburg, presents a new narrative about social life in cities often described as sharply divided. Based on the ethnography of entangled lives unfolding in a township and in a suburb in Johannesburg, in a bairro and in an elite neighborhood in Maputo, the book includes case studies of relations between domestic workers and their employers, failed attempts by urban elites to close off their neighborhoods, and entanglements emerging in religious spaces and in shopping malls. Systematizing comparison as an experience-based method, the book makes an important contribution to urban anthropology, comparative urbanism and urban studies.

Author : Barbara Heer
Publisher : Saint Philip Street Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1013293878

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Cities of Entanglements by Barbara Heer Pdf

How do people live together in cities shaped by inequality? This comparative ethnography of two African cities, Maputo and Johannesburg, presents a new narrative about social life in cities often described as sharply divided. Based on the ethnography of entangled lives unfolding in a township and in a suburb in Johannesburg, in a bairro and in an elite neighborhood in Maputo, the book includes case studies of relations between domestic workers and their employers, failed attempts by urban elites to close off their neighborhoods, and entanglements emerging in religious spaces and in shopping malls. Systematizing comparison as an experience-based method, the book makes an important contribution to urban anthropology, comparative urbanism and urban studies. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.

Author : Nkwi, Paul Nchoji
Publisher : Langaa RPCIG
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789956792795

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The Anthropology of Africa: Challenges for the 21st Century by Nkwi, Paul Nchoji Pdf

In 1999 (August 30 - September 2) the Pan African Anthropological Association (PAAA) marked the 10th anniversary of its creation by holding its 9th Annual Conference in Yaounde, Cameroon - the city and country of its birth. The conference, themed "The Anthropology of Africa: Challenges for the 21st Century", was attended by some seventy participants, mostly African. Among the international participants was Dr Sydel Silverman, President of the Wenner Gren Foundation at the time - a long term partner of the PAAA; she was present at the inaugural conference in 1988. The conference proceedings were initially published in 2000 with very limited circulation. Given the continued relevance of the papers presented, and in view of the call by the President of the PAAA for African anthropologists to reunite anthropological theory and practice in the teaching programmes of African universities, the PAAA is pleased to republish the proceedings of its landmark 9th Annual Conference. The book consists of forty three divided into eight parts, namely: i) teaching anthropology in the decades ahead; ii) Health Challenges: HIV/AIDS Anthropological Perspectives; iii) NGOS: Use and Misuse of Anthropology; iv) Anthropological Focus on Environment; v) Some Applied Issues in Anthropology; vi) The African Family in Crisis; vii) Ethnicity and Ethnic Conflicts; and viii) Population issues and anthropology: Fertility Crisis. Paul Nkwi concludes his introduction to the volume with these words: "The Anthropology of Africa will remain for a long time, fundamentally applied if it is to meet the challenges of the 21st Century."

Author : Laura Stark,Annika Björnsdotter Teppo
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Informal sector (Economics)
ISBN : 1350237590

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Power and Informality in Urban Africa by Laura Stark,Annika Björnsdotter Teppo Pdf

"Urban Africa is undergoing a transformation unlike anywhere else in the world, as unprecedented numbers of people migrate to rapidly expanding cities. But despite the growing body of work on urban Africa, the lives of these new city dwellers have received relatively little attention, particularly when it comes to crucial issues of power and inequality. This interdisciplinary collection brings together contributions from urban studies, geography, and anthropology to provide new insights into the social and political dynamics of African cities, as well as uncovering the causes and consequences of urban inequality. Featuring rich new ethnographic research data and case studies drawn from across the continent, the collection shows that Africa's new urbanites have adapted to their environs in ways which often defy the assumptions of urban planners. By examining the experiences of these urban residents in confronting issues of power and agency, the contributors consider how such insights can inform more effective approaches to research, city planning and development both in Africa and beyond"--

Author : Richard Basham
Publisher : Palo Alto, Calif. : Mayfield Publishing Company
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035858526

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Urban Anthropology by Richard Basham Pdf