Urban Anthropology
A college student taking an introduction to Anthropology course could be overwhelmed with the immense amount of information that exists in today’s text books about Anthropology, Anthropologists and the varied sub-topics. It is impossible even for the most detailed professor to cover all of the information available. A professor needs to evaluate the information and decide what topics should be included in their teachings and how in depth they should be covered. It is clear that in order for a professor to give a well-rounded view of the topic of Anthropology to students the professor must spend time teaching the students about the Urban Anthropology, its history, its impact of the field of Anthropology and how Urban Anthropology …show more content…
However, the concepts and ideas of Urban Anthropology existed long before the term did. Urban Anthropology as we see it today traces its roots to the turn of the twentieth century in Chicago and other cities. According to the text Ethnography and the City: Readings on Doing Urban Fieldwork (The Metropolis and Modern Life) “the first two published examples of Ethnographic research in a sociology journal were by husband and wife Ernest and Dorothea Moore in 1897 in the American Journal of Sociology”(Ocejo, 2012) …show more content…
Encyclopedia69.com points out “There were two factors that led to the formation of urban anthropology. One concerned the need to shake off the myth, both in popular and anthropological imagination, that anthropology is solely about the study of small, isolated and primitive communities. The other focused on the need to consider people everywhere, particularly when the transition from rural to urban forms of society (urbanization) was becoming a widespread global phenomenon.” Urban Anthropology should be included in an introduction to Anthropology class because it has been over fifty years since Urban Anthropology became its own sub discipline and many students still think all Anthropologists are working in remote mountain top
A college student taking an introduction to Anthropology course could be overwhelmed with the immense amount of information that exists in today’s text books about Anthropology, Anthropologists and the varied sub-topics. It is impossible even for the most detailed professor to cover all of the information available. A professor needs to evaluate the information and decide what topics should be included in their teachings and how in depth they should be covered. It is clear that in order for a professor to give a well-rounded view of the topic of Anthropology to students the professor must spend time teaching the students about the Urban Anthropology, its history, its impact of the field of Anthropology and how Urban Anthropology …show more content…
However, the concepts and ideas of Urban Anthropology existed long before the term did. Urban Anthropology as we see it today traces its roots to the turn of the twentieth century in Chicago and other cities. According to the text Ethnography and the City: Readings on Doing Urban Fieldwork (The Metropolis and Modern Life) “the first two published examples of Ethnographic research in a sociology journal were by husband and wife Ernest and Dorothea Moore in 1897 in the American Journal of Sociology”(Ocejo, 2012) …show more content…
Encyclopedia69.com points out “There were two factors that led to the formation of urban anthropology. One concerned the need to shake off the myth, both in popular and anthropological imagination, that anthropology is solely about the study of small, isolated and primitive communities. The other focused on the need to consider people everywhere, particularly when the transition from rural to urban forms of society (urbanization) was becoming a widespread global phenomenon.” Urban Anthropology should be included in an introduction to Anthropology class because it has been over fifty years since Urban Anthropology became its own sub discipline and many students still think all Anthropologists are working in remote mountain top