Alisdair Rogers Keble College and St. Catherine's College,University of Oxford Stephen Vertovec Principal Research Fellow, Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations, University of Warwick

• Contents: A. Rogers and S. Vertovec, Introduction - C. Pickvance, Comparative Analysis, Causality and Case Studies in Urban Studies - B. Kapferer, The Performance of Categories: Plays of Identity in Africa and Australia - K. M. Hazlehurst, Ethnicity, Ideology and Social Drama: The Waitangi Day Incident 1981 - A. Rogers, Cinco de Mayo and 15 January: Contrasting Situations in a Mixed Ethnic Neighbourhood - S. J. Smith, Where to Draw the Line: A Geography of Popular Festivity - P. Jackson, Manufacturing Meaning: Culture, Capital and Urban Change - M. Grieco, Transported Lives: Urban Social Networks and Labour Circulation - P. Werbner, From Commodities to Gifts: Pakistani Migrant Workers in Manchester - M. Anwar, Social Networks of Pakistanis in the UK: A Re-evaluation - G. Bridge, Gentrification, Class and Community: a Social Network Approach - D. Boswell, What's in a Name? The Social Prestige of Residential Areas in Malta as Perceived by Their Inhabitants

'Many of the contributions are ... enlightening, capturing a very real sense of the way in which people's interactions consturct their experience of urban settings.'Pamela Shurmer-Smith, University of Portsmouth'The Urban Context is more than just a book, it is a festschrift for the revered urban antrhopologist J Clyde Mitchell. [...] Clyde Mitchell was always proud of his academic progeny and, on the basis of this book, he had every right to be. The essays are varied, stimulating and often at the leading edge of their respective fields. ...highly recommended.'Urban Studies