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Africa and Urban Anthropology: Theoretical and Methodological Contributions from Contemporary Fieldwork
Africa and Urban Anthropology: Theoretical and Methodological Contributions from Contemporary Fieldwork
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This book provides valuable anthropological insight into urban Africa, covering a range of cities across a continent that is rapidly urbanizing. It explores topics such as belonging, globalization, colonialism, and transnationalism, as well as cultural dimensions of infrastructure and public resources, mobility, labor issues, spatial organization, language, and popular culture trends. It reflects on how ethnography of urban Africa fits within anthropology and urban studies and offers new theoretical concepts and methodologies for fieldwork in African cities.
Format: Hardback
Length: 524 pages
Publication date: 08 March 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
This comprehensive volume provides invaluable anthropological insights into urban Africa, encompassing a diverse array of cities across a continent that has experienced rapid urbanization. It delves into the intricate structures, social dynamics, and rhythms that define African cities, towns, and urban spaces, while also exploring contemporary concepts for understanding these dynamic urban environments in the twenty-first century. The contributors examine a range of topics, including notions of belonging, the impacts of globalization, colonialism, and transnationalism on African urban life, the cultural dimensions of infrastructure and public resources, mobility patterns, labor challenges, spatial organization, language practices, and popular cultural trends.
The book reflects on the place of ethnography in anthropology and urban studies, as well as the potential for developing new theoretical frameworks and methodologies through anthropological fieldwork in African cities. It appeals to scholars and students from anthropology, African studies, urban studies, sociology, and geography, offering a rich and interdisciplinary perspective on the complex and rapidly evolving urban landscapes of Africa.
Weight: 1160g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367431716
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