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Health anthropology and urban health research
Anthropology & Medicine, 2003We live in a rapidly urbanising world. According to the 2001 statistics of the United Nations,a the proportion of urban dwellers rose from 30% in 1950 to 47% in 2000 and will probably attain 60% in 2030. Almost 70% of these urban dwellers live in cities of developing regions.
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Introducing Urban Anthropology
2015This 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.
Jaffe, R., de Koning, A.
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2020
Urban anthropologists study cities and spaces. They analyze urban lives, cultures, communities, place-making, and transformations and explore urban inequalities that are the result of uneven class, race, ethnic or gender dynamics, im/migration, labor conflicts, or political oppression.
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Urban anthropologists study cities and spaces. They analyze urban lives, cultures, communities, place-making, and transformations and explore urban inequalities that are the result of uneven class, race, ethnic or gender dynamics, im/migration, labor conflicts, or political oppression.
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Contemporary Philosophical Research
Aim. To propose a taxonomy of the urban population. Methodology. The characteristic grouping of ontologically diverse categories of phenomena. Results. It is demonstrated that the technique of concentrating the figures of interaction according to taxonomic units does not have a linear representation; it is due to the dynamic coordination of ...
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Aim. To propose a taxonomy of the urban population. Methodology. The characteristic grouping of ontologically diverse categories of phenomena. Results. It is demonstrated that the technique of concentrating the figures of interaction according to taxonomic units does not have a linear representation; it is due to the dynamic coordination of ...
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Urban Anthropology: Southern Europe
2021This entry reviews the contribution of anthropology to the study of cities in southern Europe, here delimited to the countries of Italy, Spain, Portugal and Greece. Until the 1980s, local and foreign anthropologists working in the region largely focused their attention on rural and small urban settings.
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Beyond Urban Socio-anthropology
Africa Review of Books, 2008The Management of Urban Development in Zambia by Emmanuel Mutale. Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot, 2004, xv + 268 pp., ISBN 0 7546 3596 1 Zambia is said to be one of the most urbanized countries in Africa and is known in the social sciences as one of the main research sites for the study of urbanization.
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