Urban anthropology : perspectives on third world urbanisation and urbanism
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New York:
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1974..
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Table of Contents:
- Ch.1. Why study African towns?
- Urbanisation: An Overview
- Urbanisation in Africa: Some Historical Considerations
- Are Towns the "Pace-Setters" of the New Africa?
- Towns and the Rural-Urban DImension
- Urban Life, Social Change and Modernisation
- The City and the Behavioural Sciences
- Ch.2. Some conceptual approaches to African urban studies
- The Rural and the Urban Traditions
- Migrancy and Migrants
- The Urban System: The Macro Approach
- The Sub-Systems: The Micro Approach
- An Approach to Organised Complexity: Integration Despite Diversity
- The City, Town, Suburb and Hinterland: A Symbiotic Relationship?
- Ch.3. Some basic organisational and institutional characteristics of urban complexity
- Personal and Group Relations
- Ways of Work
- Occupations
- Economic and Social Mobility
- The Political Order
- Family Life
- The Ideational World
- Summary and Synthesis
- Ch.4. Problems of Methodology in African urban research: The search of new dimensions
- Introduction
- Initial Problems of Contact
- Problems of Definition and Selection of Topics
- The Town versus the Neighbourhood
- Heterogeneity as a Particular Problem in Methodology
- Participant Observation in an Urban Setting: The "Intensive" Anthropologicaln Approach
- Survey Techniques: The Sociological Approach
- Inter and Multy-Disciplinary Approaches and Research Techniques
- Recapitulation and Syntesis
- Ch.5. Urban anthropology: The future of a pioneer
- Introduction
- The Need to Change Direction: From Traditional to Modern Studies
- Being Trapped by "Pure" versus "Applied" Studies: A False Dichotomy
- Urban Studies: Some Simple Research Proposals
- Conclusion
- References Cited
- Tables
- World population, rural and urban (towns and cities) 1800-1970(in millions)
- Census and Projected urban populations by continents ansd size of groups, 1960,1975, 2000
- World's rural and urban population 1960, 1975, 2000(in millions)
- Rural and urban population (whole world)
- Percentage increase(or decrease) per decade of total, rural and urban population 1950-1960 and 1960-1970
- World cities in 1970-distribution according to size
- Town and city population (whole world) in percentages 1950-1970
- Percentages of urban and rural populations in developed and underdeveloped regions, 1950-2000
- Rural and urban population increase (or decrease) 1950-1970 of less developed regions (selected) in percentages
- Populations growth of some major urban areas in less developed regions
- Map
- Author index
- Place name index
- Subject index