ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Urban Anthropology, Participant Observation, Relate
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Jan 24 (fri) last day to hand in proposals. Download revised syllabus - suggested readings have changed. Readings on bb will be removed soon - download now! 2 textbooks available (one in short term loan, or online) Urban anthropology emerged from 60s for first time. A lot of anthropology is taken in urban cities by defaulty - people continue to move into cities. Un predicts 70% of the world population living in cities. Labor migration * important reason migration to cities. Other types of social science methods - such as quantitative methods (surveys, questionaires, interviewsetc) Fear that if anthropology had to incorporate other social science disciplines they fear that they would lose the methodology that is specific to anthropology. City = domain of sociology for a long time. Start to do research at home at this time. Urban continuum was a big theme - how people adapt to life in the city, what is diff, what remains the same.