Research Catalog

Title

Urban place and process : readings in the anthropology of cities / [edited by] Irwin Press, M. Estellie Smith.

Publication

New York : Macmillan, ©1980.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Press, Irwin.
• Smith, M. Estellie, 1935-

Description

viii, 487 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

• Urban anthropology
• Cities and towns
• Cities
• cities
• Steden
• Sociaal-economische aspecten
• Urbanization
• Anthropologie urbaine
• Urbanisme

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 483-487.

Contents

Introduction -- A note on research and term paper topics -- Part 1. Urbs and Urbanism. The metropolis and mental life / Georg Simmel -- Urbanism as a way of life / Louis Wirth -- Urbanization among the Yoruba / William Bascom -- Urban domains : environments that defy close definition / John Gulick -- Part 2. The Study of Urban Milieu. A perspective on anthropological fieldwork in cities / George M. Foster and Robert V. Kemper -- Mental maps / Peter Gould and Rodney White -- Rationale and romance in urban anthropology / Richard Fox -- Determinants of behavior in Seville / Irwin Press -- Part 3. The Development and Differentiation of Cities. The first cities : how and why did they arise / Kingsley Davis -- Determinants of urban growth in pre-industrial societies / Bruce Trigger -- The pre-industrial city : a backward glance, a forward look / Gideon Sjoberg -- The cultural role of cities / Robert Redfield and Milton Singer -- Cultural roles and primary urban types / Richard Fox -- Part 4. Urbanization. The new urbanization / Dennis McElrath -- Migrancy and the study of Africans in towns / Philip Mayer -- A study of the urbanization process among Mixtec migrants from Tilantongo in Mexico City / Douglas S. Butterworth -- The Japanese factory / James Abegglen -- Part 5. Units of Urban Organization. Urbanization and role analysis / Michael Banton -- Situation and social network in cities / Noel Chrisman -- Middle-class London families and their relatives / Raymond Firth, Jane Hubert, and Anthony Forge -- The role of voluntary associations in West African urbanization / Kenneth Little -- Regional associations : a note on opposed interpretations / Ronald Skeldon -- Part 6. Urban Places. Public places / Edwin Eames and Judith Goode -- A vecinadad in Mexico City / Oscar Lewis -- The West End : an urban village / Herbert Gans -- Squatter settlements / William Mangin -- Part 7. Economic and Cultural Differentiation in the City. Poverty and urban analysis / Judith Goode -- Child of the dark / Carolina Maria de Jesus -- Ethnicity in the politics of stratification / Abner Cohen -- Elites and ethnic boundary maintenance : a study of the roles of elites in Chinatown, New York City / Bernard Wong -- Relocated American Indians in the San Francisco Bay area : social interaction and Indian identity / Joan Ablon -- A tale of two cities : the reality of historical differences / M. Estellie Smith -- Part 8. Alternative possible urban futures / H. Wentworth Eldredge -- Chicago / Thomas Monteleone -- Editors' bibliography.

ISBN

• 0023965401
• 9780023965401

LCCN

79013355

OCLC

• ocm04956867
• 4956867
• SCSB-22151

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library