Urban Anthropology, Postmodernist Cities, and Perspectives

Abstract

WITH THE REALIZATION that “the city” was an essentialization and that anthropology of the city was a chimera, urban anthropology seems without a topic for study. This article argues that the need for urban anthropology has never been greater, if we consider that there are contesting perspectives constituting cities. One perspective appropriate to a renewed urban anthropology is presented in David Harvey's The Condition of Postmoderniiy (1989). Using that perspective the article demonstrates from ethnographic examples that deindustrialization in First‐World cities has its flip side in industrialization of Third‐World cities, [globalization, postmodernism, deindustrialization]

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