Cities, Classes, and the Social Order / / Anthony Lee; ed. by Roger Sanjek.

Cities, Classes, and the Social Order brings together nine conceptual and theoretical essays by the influential 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 s...

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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2017]
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Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.) :; 7 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Photographs
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Anthony Leeds: Life and Work
  • The Life of Anthony Leeds: U nity in Diversity
  • The Holistic Anthropology of Anthony Leeds
  • Cities in History
  • 1. Cities and Countryside in Anthropology
  • 2. Towns and Villages in Society: Hierarchies of Order and Cause
  • Classes in the Social Order
  • 3. Mythos and Pathos: Sorne Unpleasantries on Peasantries
  • 4. Econornic-Social Changes and the Future of the Middle Class
  • 5. Sorne Problerns in the Analysis of Class and the Social Order
  • 6. Marx, Class, and Power
  • Localities in Urban Systems
  • 7. Locality Power in Relation to Supralocal Power Institutions
  • 8. The Anthropology of Cities: Sorne Methodological Issues
  • Bibliography
  • Index