Anthropology's World

Life in a Twenty-First Century Discipline

Anthropology, Culture and Society

Ulf Hannerz

Pluto Press

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What, in these times, in is anthropology for? How do anthropologists want to be understood? For whom do they write, and in what language? And can we use anthropology's past as a resource for thinking about challenges past and future? In his new book, Ulf Hannerz cements his reputation as one of anthropology's finest writers, showing how anthropology came to be a central intellectual discipline and why it is vital that it remains so in an increasingly globalized world. "Anthropology's world" refers, on the one hand, to the discipline as a social world in itself, as a community stretching across national boundaries. It also refers to the wider outside world to which it must relate in various ways. This book deals with the world of anthropology through a broad and revealing historical analysis, questioning the way anthropologists approach their work now, and speculating how they will do so in the future. Turning the toolkit of the anthropologist upon the discipline itself and asking searching questions of the purpose, ethics and future of the subject, Anthropology's World will be required reading for all students and practitioners of anthropology.

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"Widely admired as a leading anthropologist of globalisation, Ulf Hannerz is also among anthropology's finest writers and most erudite  scholars, although he tends to carry his considerable learning  lightly. In this new book, part memoir, part dissection of the  Zeitgeist, Hannerz shows how anthropology came to be a central intellectual discipline, and why it should stay that way in a  globalised world where the local nonetheless refuses to be beaten into submission." --Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo
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Ulf Hannerz

Ulf Hannerz is Professor Emeritus of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University.

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Anthropology's World
Life in a Twenty-First Century Discipline
Anthropology, Culture and Society
Ulf Hannerz

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August 2010
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