Introducing Urban Anthropology

This book provides an up-to-date introduction to the important field of urban anthropology. This is a critical area of study, as more than half of the world’s population now lives in cities and anthropological research is increasingly done in an urban context. Exploring contemporary anthropological approaches to the urban, the authors consider:

• How can we define urban anthropology?
• What are the main themes of twenty-first-century urban anthropological research?
• What are the possible fut...