As cities assume a growing importance in all societies, as they house an increasing proportion of the world's people, and as they become more closely interlinked through the processes of globalisation, so they command more attention from anthropologists and sociologists. How do we imagine, produce, live in and experience cities? Does urban life across the globe differ fundamentally from rural life, or is it better understood in reference to particular structural, societal or cultural contexts? How do pre-industrial, modern and postmodern cities vary and what do they have in common? Is it possible to differentiate between Western cities and cities of the so-called developing world? What... -- Course Website
Instructor: Professor Michael Pinches
Prerequisites: any Level 2 Anthropology unit
