African Anthropology.

African anthropology.

Introduction.

We talk about a science that is born in the twentieth century, so we can affirm a recent creation discipline. We can validate that it is a science both for the rigor in its research and in the procedure as well as the branch from which anthropology comes.

Developing.

Urban anthropology is the science that studies the deepening of society, based on urbanization, poverty and ethnicity, studies influential processes as well as the need for growth and expansion in cities. To take into account the influence of a political tendency that affects the urbanization of cities.

Neoliberalism, in addition to being a political project, whose main objective is the development of individual capacities in the favorable environment and the guarantee of a free market and commerce.

Another point to highlight in this modality is the aspect of ethnography is very important for this anthropology, specifically studying life in cities, trying to address the entire context of urban life taking care of the space of cities, we could affirm withoutfear of being wrong of urbanism as a way of life.

Where urban areas are the context for the study and research of social classes and those cultural variations. One of the first investigations of ethnography was in England (London). Urban anthropology and sociology start from the same branch, study society: anthropology is the one dedicated to primitive populations while sociology to civilized populations.

This anthropology was officially recognized at the end of the sixties, it was not considered essential to be academic, Tylor himself said, one of the parents of anthropology that described anthropology as "a science of reformers" is not always favorable, butThanks to urban anthropology we can have public services such as education, health and law. 

Some of the first investigations that was carried out was in 1920, it was the first scientific research program that studies the city through a set of research characterized by the observation and description of delimited social groups.

Characteristic

Study the city with its own methodologies

In charge of studying the class of life or urban tribes belonging to the city.

Acquire a method called ethnography to investigate in your studies:

• Ethnology in the city: professional and residential field, between work and family relationships.
• Ethnology of the city: focused on urban sociability in contrast to rural societies.
• The imaginary in the city: relationship between the urban space and the practices of its inhabitants as a city production agents.

Sociology is a field that relates to urban anthropology, since they both study the same, but with different perspectives. Anthropology is dedicated to study in all areas of man, how is his psychological, biological and social life.

conclusion.

In other words, he studies the evolution of man since he was Homo Sapiens Sapiens. And sociology unlike anthropology is what studies society from globality, that is how they work and how different changes in man when he lives in society.