Afterthoughts: Old and New Directions

Abstract

THEORETICAL DEVELOPMENTS in urban anthropology manifest a continuity with concerns that first emerged nearly three decades ago, which include contextual and holistic analyses. The new theoretical interests extend these frames horizontally, to examine the articulation of processes on a global scale, and vertically, to delineate systemic linkages. Current topical interests broaden the range of ethnographic subjects and focus on contemporary phenomena in the search for interrelated processes that produce such things as gentrification and tourism alongside an increase of homelessness and urban squatters. This enhances the prospects of building theories based on change and process, [contextual analysis, urban economic development, vertical systemic linkages, ethnography of contemporary change]

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