Africa and Urban Anthropology Theoretical and Methodological Contributions from Contemporary Fieldwork

• Main Authors: Pellow, Deborah, Scheld, Suzanne
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Routledge 2023; Taylor & Francis; Taylor and Francis
• Edition: 1
• Series: Routledge Studies in Anthropology
• Subjects: Anthropology; Artisanal Gold Miners; Colonial Administration; Cultural & Social; Diaspora Investors; Diaspora Returnees; Diaspora Somalis; Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning; Extra-state Violence; Female Genital Cutting; Geography; Human geography; Interdisciplinary studies; International Central Gospel Church; Ivory Coast; Land use, Urban > Africa; Liberation Wars; Linguistic Landscape; NGO Worker; Northern Ghanaians; Pentecostal Churches; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; Regional / International studies; Regional Studies; RLI; Social and cultural anthropology; Social groups, communities and identities; Social Science; Social Support Activities; Social Support Initiatives; Society and culture: general; Society and Social Sciences; Sociology; Sociology and anthropology; South Sudan; South Sudanese; Stone Town; Urban Africa; Urban Anthropology; Urban communities; Urbanization > Africa; Van Dijk 2010a; Young Men; Zanzibar Stone Town; Zanzibar Stone Town; Juba; Ivory Coast; Stone Town; South Sudanese; Extra-state Violence; RLI; Northern Ghanaians; Pentecostal Churches; Language; Urban Anthropology; Young Men; African Urban; Urban Ethnography; Liberation Wars; Colonial Administration; Diaspora Somalis; South Sudan; International Central Gospel Church; Van Dijk 2010a; Diaspora Returnees; Artisanal Gold Miners; Urban Africa; Female Genital Cutting; NGO Worker; Linguistic Landscape; Kafanchan; Diaspora Investors; Modernity; Social Support Initiatives; Social Support Activities; Precarious Citizenship

This volume offers valuable anthropological insight into urban Africa, covering a range of cities across a continent that has become one of the fastest urbanizing geographic areas of the globe. Consideration is given to the structures, social formations, and rhythms that constitute the definition of...