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Overview
Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences.
This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by Routledge, 112 volumes in total are being brought together under the name The International Behavioural and Social Sciences Library: Classics from the Tavistock Press.
Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was originally published in 1974 and is available individually. The collection is also available in a number of themed mini-sets of between 5 and 13 volumes, or as a complete collection.
Synopsis
This book examines the complex phenomenon of urban ethnicity focussing on specific societies that include those in Britain, the USA, Indonesia, Israel and East, West and Central Africa. Dealing with basic question of theory and method the studies also present field material on urban ethnicity in different cultures. The topic is also examined within a broader sociological perspective, highlighting its significance for the development of social anthropology.Originally published in 1974.