Europe
An urban social anthropology of Britain dates to the 1950s Gluckman's role in it was recounted by Frankenberg 87 in introducing a set of Manchester-influenced essays on urban institutions. This tradition continued with Mars's and Nicod's studies 181, 182 of workplace crime fiddles and restaurants, and with Hazan's book on the social construction of dependency in a London senior citizen center 126 cf 278, 308. In perhaps the finest urban ethnography of the 1980s, Finnegan 78 profiled middle- and...
The Middle East and North Africa
War, oil, religious revival, and ethnic complexity all affected anthropological consideration of urban life in the Middle East and North Africa during the 1980s. In an intricate, deft analysis of the significance and disappearance of working-class women's inter-religious networks in urban Lebanon, Joseph 135 weaved in constitutional ethnic arrangements, social service patronage, bank collapse and petrodollar flight, Israeli-Arab conflicts, arrival of masses of poor Syrian and Palestinian...
The United States
The scope of US urban anthropology widened dramatically during the 1980s. Ethnographers studied up, with Marcus's work on the fiduciary and familial dynamics of inherited wealth 178-180 , Ostrander's study of the domestic and community management roles of upper crust, Junior League Women 217 cf 188 , and Weatherford's historically informed account of Congressional patronage and ritual 316 . Anthropologists also studied up and down, examining interaction among regulators, policy makers, workers...
The World In Urban Ethnography
Rather than offer an extended consideration of the urban-situated theoretical output of topical anthropologies in the 1980s available in many other Annual Review articles , the middle section of this review takes a substantive turn. We embark on a brief world tour, via urban ethnography, to identify issues, processes, and locales of attention and neglect in the United States with separate attention to New York City , the Caribbean and Latin America, Europe, the Middle East and North Africa,...