Cities, Classes, and the Social Order

Anthony Lee

Published by Cornell University Press 2017

Cities, Classes, and the Social Order

Anthony Lee
Edited by: Roger Sanjek

In the series The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues

https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501713729

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About this book

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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Roger Sanjek is Professor of Anthropology at Queens College, City University of New York. He is the the author of The Future of Us All and the editor of Fieldnotes: The Makings of Anthropology, both from Cornell.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Photographs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Preface Roger Sanjek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xiii
Anthony Leeds: Life and Work
The Life of Anthony Leeds: U nity in Diversity R. Tirrwthy Sieber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
The Holistic Anthropology of Anthony Leeds Roger Sanjek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
Cities in History
1. Cities and Countryside in Anthropology Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	50
2. Towns and Villages in Society: Hierarchies of Order and Cause Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	70
Classes in the Social Order
3. Mythos and Pathos: Sorne Unpleasantries on Peasantries Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	108
4. Econornic-Social Changes and the Future of the Middle Class Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	144
5. Sorne Problerns in the Analysis of Class and the Social Order Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
6. Marx, Class, and Power Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	192
Localities in Urban Systems
7. Locality Power in Relation to Supralocal Power Institutions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
8. The Anthropology of Cities: Sorne Methodological Issues Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	232
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
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Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 288
Illustrations
- Other: 7 halftones
Keywords: Anthropology; Urban Studies

eBook

Published: April 10, 2017
ISBN: 9781501713729