Author:
Anyadike‐Danes Chima Michael
Abstract
Social anthropologists have studied Britain's urban environs since the 1930s. In that time, they have described considerable changes in both cities and the lives of their inhabitants. Most recently, social anthropologists have been very attentive to the reformation of the British welfare state that has occurred since the 1980s, related to the emergence of new ideologies calling for a diminished role for the state. The material anthropologists have produced documenting such social changes is quite heterogeneous; it is reflective of the lack of a unified vision for the subfield. However, among the most common subjects of inquiry are the role of class in British cities, global majorities' lives in urban environs, and practices of urban governance.