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Author / Creator:	Leeds, Anthony, 1925-
Imprint:	Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1994.
Description:	1 online resource (xiii, 272 pages) : illustrations.
Language:	English
Series:	Anthropology of contemporary issues Anthropology of contemporary issues.
Subject:	Urban anthropology. Cities and towns. Sociology, Urban. Social classes. Cities and towns. Social classes. Sociology, Urban. Urban anthropology.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11409398

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Other authors / contributors:	Sanjek, Roger, 1944-
ISBN:	9781501713729 1501713728 0801429579 9780801429576 0801481686 9780801481680
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-265) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	"Cities, Classes, and the Social Order brings together nine conceptual and theoretical essays by a leading anthropologist, Anthony Leeds (1925-1989). Leeds's 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. Inspired by Karl Marx and Alfred Kroeber, he developed a protean vision of culture, power, and the social order, and his work represents an outstanding synthesis that is relevant to current attempts at reintegrating a balkanized anthropology and to other social and human sciences." "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."--Jacket.
Other form:	Print version: Leeds, Anthony, 1925- Cities, classes, and the social order. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1994 0801429579

Table of Contents:

Preface / Roger Sanjek
The Life of Anthony Leeds: Unity in Diversity / R. Timothy Sieber
The Holistic Anthropology of Anthony Leeds / Roger Sanjek
Cities
1. Cities and Countryside in Anthropology
2. Towns and Villages in Society: Hierarchies of Order and Cause. The FMI Helps Portugal. The Green Eye of Xerox in the Tropics. Casal Ventoso ...
3. Mythos and Pathos: Some Unpleasantries on Peasantries
4. Economic-Social Changes and the Future of the Middle Class
5. Some Problems in the Analysis of Class and the Social Order
6. Marx, Class, and Power. When the Gulls Fly, the Tempest Comes. Sao Martinho. Betrayals
7. Locality Power in Relation to Supralocal Power Institutions
8. The Anthropology of Cities: Some Methodological Issues.

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