Urban Anthropology

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For open discussion related to the anthropology of cities and urban space.

Website: http://anthcoop.wikidot.com/grp-urbananth
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Urban anthropology addresses the social and cultural complexities of cities and urban life. Although generally seen as a subset of socio-cultural anthropology, urban anthropology overlaps with many other areas, such as economic, political and environmental anthropology, human geography, architecture, globalization, transnationalism, immigration, urbanization, and development studies. Due to their expansive size, population density and often multicultural nature, urban spaces provide distinct methodological challenges for anthropologists and ethnographers.

It is hoped that this group will foster beneficial discussion to enrich the practice of urban anthropology and to highlight the importance of understanding human societies of any scale. Please feel free to join and contribute.

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Getting Physical in the Field 2 Replies

Started by John McCreery. Last reply by paulrchalmers Jun 18, 2011.

Weimar Cities? 2 Replies

Started by John McCreery. Last reply by John McCreery Dec 28, 2010.

The exclusion of fishermen from the sea (Durban. South Africa) 4 Replies

Started by Sjoerd van Grootheest. Last reply by Sjoerd van Grootheest Nov 22, 2010.

Beaches as Landscapes 2 Replies

Started by Sophie Chevalier. Last reply by Keith Hart Nov 16, 2010.

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Comment by Sheyma Buali on February 9, 2012 at 1:21pm: Thanks Keith, that's very supportive! Very much appreciated

Comment by Keith Hart on February 8, 2012 at 11:51pm: Thanks, Sheyma. I have posted the link on my Facebook page and sent it to interested friends.

Comment by Sheyma Buali on February 8, 2012 at 11:42pm: Someone Clap For Me is a feature documentary film about the lives and work of contemporary Ugandan poets and hip hop artists. With more than forty-four ethnic groups, each with its own unique language and culture, Uganda has various rich oral traditions, which is still influential in people's lives despite the forces of globalization and urbanization. This film tells the story of how poetry is resurfacing in Uganda in the form of open mic events and hip hop music. http://www.indiegogo.com/SCFM

Comment by Francine Barone on December 15, 2011 at 7:24pm: Urbanities - The Journal of the IUAES Commission on Urban Anthropology

The inaugural issue of the CUA's open-access journal Urbanities is now out: http://www.anthrojournal-urbanities.com/current-issue.html.

Comment by Paul Wren on March 8, 2011 at 7:07pm: Michael Smith, an archaeologist working in Mexico and addressing broad themes of urbanism around the world, has launched a new blog: Wide Urban World. He's writing about "cities as viewed from a broad historical and comparative perspective."

Definitely worth a look.

Comment by bashkim lajçi on November 25, 2010 at 12:01am: Very cool.

Comment by Sheyma Buali on November 4, 2010 at 5:12pm: I wanted to share a post from my own blog that I thought would be of interest here. It is about a talk given by artist Kader Attia on the background of his cous-cous construction of the Mzeb city of Ghardaia. http://humanette.blogspot.com/2010/10/map-marathon-kader-attia.html

Comment by Martha Radice on September 17, 2010 at 5:00pm: Cool sequence and I've put it on my urban anth/soc class website. I agree with Susan about the music. But I don't think it's an ethnographic moment - not until you actually talk with the people involved somehow with the film - the ones who appear in it, produce it or are watching it!

Comment by SusanLayne Nielsen on September 9, 2010 at 11:31pm: Watching it with the sound off is completely compelling. The music is great, but the images get into your head better without it. YMMV, of course.