Cities, classes, and the social order / Anthony Leeds ; edited by Roger Sanjek.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leeds, Anthony, 1925- author.

Contributor:

Sanjek, Roger, 1944- editor.

Series:

Anthropology of contemporary issues.

Anthropology of Contemporary Issues

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urban anthropology.

Cities and towns.

Sociology, Urban.

Social classes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 pages) : illustrations, photographs.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, New York ; London, [England] : Cornell University Press, 1994.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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 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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Photographs

Preface / Sanjek, Roger

Acknowledgments

Anthony Leeds: Life and Work

The Life of Anthony Leeds: U nity in Diversity / Sieber, R. Tirrwthy

The Holistic Anthropology of Anthony Leeds / Sanjek, Roger

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781501713712

150171371X

9781501713729

1501713728

OCLC:

1016781781