Urbanities,
Vol. 3
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No 2
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November 2013
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DISCUSSIONS AND COMMENTS
Forum on
‘Urban Anthropology’
Anthropological research in urban settings – often referred to as ‘urban anthropology’, for short –
and its attendant ethnographically-based findings are increasingly attracting attention from
anthropologists and non-anthropologists alike, including other professionals and decision-makers.
In view of its growing importance, this Issue of
Urbanities
carries a Forum on the topic, which
we hope will be of interest to our readers. This Forum opens with the reproduction of an essay by
Giuliana B. Prato and Italo Pardo recently published in the UNESCO Encyclopaedia EOLSS,
which forms the basis for the discussion that follows in the form of comments and reflections by
a number of scholars, in alphabetical order. This special section of
Urbanities
closes with a brief
Report on a round-table Conference on ‘Placing Urban Anthropology: Synchronic and
Diachronic Reflections’ held last September at the University of Fribourg and the transcript of
the Address given by the Rector of that University during the Conference.
