Böcker av Abner Cohen

Facsimile reprint of edition published in 1974 by Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd.

This book examines the complex phenomenon of urban ethnicity; including Britain, the USA, Indonesia, Israel and East, West and Central Africa.

Based on Cohen's fieldwork in the 60s among the Hausa migrants, this is a landmark work in urban anthropology and provides a comparative framework for studying political processes in African societies.

Explores the dynamic relations between cultural forms and political formations in some urban cultural movements. The analysis is based on a detailed study of the structure and development of the London Notting Hill Carnival. The celebration is contrasted with other carnival movements, such as California's 'Renaissance Pleasure Faire'.

"A 'good read, ' and at the same time an outstanding and well-balanced theoretical contribution to current debates about the relation of art to politics."--Frederick G. Bailey, University of California, San Diego