urban anthropology

Urban anthropology is a subset of anthropology concerned with issues of urbanization, poverty, urban space, social relations,and neoliberalism. The field has become consolidated in the 1960s and 1970s.

Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development is a journal devoted to studies in urban anthropology and world economic development. From 1972 to 1985 it was issued under the name Urban Anthropology.