ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Area Studies, Nanny, Urban Anthropology
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Lec 2 imaging the city, and city typologies. Film - age of uncertainty: metropolis (find on youtube) Characterizing cities - how one city is different than another, oppositions. The impact that is discussed about the feeling about that city. The city means a lot of different things, and can be described in many ways. 1920s this was the main place where urban anthro was produced. The participants" point of view, pioneered the use of personal doc like letters and diaries. Came up with the concentric model of social organization in the city. Studied gangs and their relations back to childrens play groups and forward to machine politics. Started as a journalist then philosopher, anthropologist, sociologist. Park is arguing that - cities have cultures (customs and traditions . ) His ambition is finding a new foundation for anthropology. Basic forms of social organization = families, communities, neighborhoods.
