Cities, Classes, and the Social Order - Rilegato

Leeds, Anthony

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ISBN 10: 0801429579 ISBN 13: 9780801429576

Casa editrice: Cornell Univ Pr, 1994

Riassunto

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.

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• Editore: Cornell Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0801429579
• ISBN 13: 9780801429576
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 288
• Redattore: Sanjek Roger