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Urban Anthropology
By: Miduran Murugathasan
What is “Urban Anthropology”?

the anthropological study of
cities

A series of community studies
in a nation, celebrates
variation in its small- town
and rural life

There is much more to
national life than small
communities
How did it come about?

Since the 1950s, Systematically
investigated urban problems and
life styles (USA, Canada and
abroad)
Vocabulary
 Systematically- arranged in or
comprising an ordered system;
orderly
What comes to mind?

Is the practice of having students do
local field work for an anthropology
course (assuming collage is an urban
setting)
“Modern Anthropology”

Uses anthropological
techniques to
interpret and analyze
mass media
Example
Homeless
youth in Toronto
Poverty
Urban
community
Furthermore……….

Anthropologists have been studying their own cultures decades

Anthropological research is booming in the USA and Canada
“Wherever there is patterned human behavior, there is grist for the
anthropological mill”
Idioms:

grist for /to one's mill- is something employed to one's profit or advantage,
especially something seemingly unpromising.
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