Description
Book SynopsisThis volume brings together nine conceptual and theoretical essays by the influential anthropologist, Anthony Leeds (1925–1989), whose pioneering work in the anthropology of complex societies was built on formative personal and research experiences in both urban and rural settings in the US, Brazil, Venezuela, and Portugal.
Trade Review"This volume brings together nine conceptual and theoretical essays by Anthony Leeds (1925–89) whose pioneering work on the anthropology of complex societies was built upon formative personal and research experience in both urban and rural settings in the United States, Brazil, Venezuela, and Portugal. This volume should serve well a broad spectrum of anthropological as well as comparative social theory and contemporary urban studies."—Urban Studies
Table of ContentsPreface by Roger Sanjek
Anthony Leeds: Life and Work
The Life of Anthony Leeds: Unity in Diversity
by R. Timothy Sieber
The Holistic Anthropology of Anthony Leeds
by Roger Sanjek
Cities [poem]
Cities in History
1. Cities and Countryside in Anthropology
2 Towns and Villages in Society: Hierarchies of Order and Cause
The FMI Helps Portugal [poem]
The Green Eye of Xerox in the Tropics [poem]
Casal Ventoso . . . [poem]
3. Mythos and Pathos: Some Unpleasantries on Peasantries
4. Economic-Social Changes and the Future of the Middle Class
5. Some Problems in the Analysis of Class and the Social Order
6. Marx, Class, and Power
When the Gulls Fly, the Tempest Comes [poem]
São Martinho [poem]
Betrayals [poem]
Localities in Urban Systems
7. Locality Power in Relation to Supralocal Power Institutions
8. The Anthropology of Cities: Some Methodological Issues
Bibliography
Index
