Anthropology of the City: A social Viewpoint, Main Tendencies, Perspectives
                        and National Traditions of Research. An example of Czech Urban Anthropology











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            * Blanka Soukupová
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            Abstrakt

            The text presents a brief outline of the development of Czech urban anthropology from its 
            1950s until the present. It follows the viewpoints of this highly promising discipline and
            stages of development. It focuses particular attention on the situation after 1989. While 

            decade after the Velvet Revolution research on multiethnicity and multiculturality in the 
            today anthropologists have proceeded to try to explain the city as a whole. At the same ti
            illustrates how the birth of urban anthropology was related to a change in the understandi

            concept of Czech ethnography – folk – and to a change of point of view of researches on th
            ’50s until the ’80s the proletariat was regarded for ideological reasons as the core of ur

            urban anthropology thus coincided with workers’ ethnography.

            Klíčová slova

            Czech urban anthropology; city; folk; proletariat

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