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Urban Anthropology, Inc., otherwise known as UrbAn, is a community based not-for-profit organization dedicated to the celebration of cultural diversity and the use of a holistic approach in addressing problems in urban areas. UrbAn applies the practices and theory from anthropology to community based projects and issues. In working on these projects, UrbAn enlists the assistance of student interns from colleges and universities in southern Wisconsin as well as community volunteers. This paper presents an overview of two such projects. The first, City Cultures in Wisconsin, an educational video series using micro-narratives collected from Wisconsin’s urban sub-cultural groups, aims to promote cultural exchange and increase awareness of Wisconsin’s rich cultural roots. A second, the Neighborhood Eco-cultural Squares to Integrate Neighborhood Greening (NESTING) projects goal is to redevelop vacant lots into neighborhood squares.
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The Anthony Leeds Prize in Urban Anthropology is awarded annually by the SUNTA in honor of Anthony Leeds, a pioneer in the field of urban anthropology. The prize aims to affirm the continuing relevance of urban anthropology to all social scientists and to acknowledge the accomplishments and contributions of investigators in the field of urban studies. The winner receives an award in the amount of $500. and an engraved plaque.
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The Urban Anthropology seeks out these forgotten places and examines what they have and are becoming. Who is left behind as caretaker of these surroundings, and their interactions there are quite incidental to this project. The appearance of human form is sparse in the images, although when needed, figures do lend further significance to the singularity of the recorded situation.
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Particular strengths of the Department of Anthropology lie in the faculty's expertise in contemporary American Indians, African Culture, Latin American Cultures, African-American Culture, Linguistic Anthropology, Urban Anthropology, Asia, and the archaeology of North America. Distinctive features of the program include opportunities for supervised archaeological and ethnographic fieldwork, for training in museum work in conjunction with the Anthropology Teaching Museum, for field trips and involvement in urban community projects, and for participation by qualified majors in the Alpha Chapter of Illinois of Lambda Alpha, the National Collegiate Honors Society for Anthropology. In addition, the faculty participates in interdisciplinary programs such as Women's Studies and African-American Studies.
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[T]he emergence of urban anthropology resulted in part from the consequences of World War II and the processes of decolonization. From the perspective of urban anthropologists, the interest in cities has reaffirmed the traditional claim of anthropology to concern itself with a variety of human cultures and societies. Hence, they do not find the classification of anthropology as a field that studies "primitives" and sociology as a field that focuses on industrial societies justifiable. For, in their view, differentiating "the West" as industrial and "the rest" as "primitive" does not constitute a valid opposition because a society does not exist that has not been profoundly touched by industrialization. Theoretically, urban anthropology involves the study of the cultural systems of cities as well as the linkages of cities to larger and smaller places and populations as part of the world-wide urban system (Kemper 1996).
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