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Book Synopsis The scholarship of Ulf Hannerz is characterized by its extraordinary breadth and visionary nature. He has contributed to the understanding of urban life and transnational networks, and the role of media, paradoxes of identity and new forms of community, suggesting to see culture in terms of flows rather than as bounded entities. Contributions honor Hannerz’ legacy by addressing theoretical, epistemological, ethical and methodological challenges facing anthropological inquiry on topics from cultural diversity policies in Europe to transnational networks in Yemen, and from pottery and literature to multinational corporations.
Trade Review “The chapters range over a fascinating territory of institutions and sites… {The volume] is very well titled, as it is at once a sort of retrospective and, more importantly, a future oriented study of what anthropology can and should become.” · Anthropology Review Database
“The cosmopolitan anthropologist Ulf Hannerz has been engaged for forty years on a multi-site ethnography of the intricate web of relationships that he calls the global ecumene. To this ambitious, protean project he has brought remarkable erudition, the insights of the social sciences, and the style and sensibility of a humanist.” · Adam Kuper, London School of Economics
“One of anthropology’s most prescient, capacious, and original thinkers, Hannerz is unique in his worldliness, his genial humanity. He has long epitomized the genius of his discipline to cast light on a culturally complex, translocal world.” · Jean Comaroff, Harvard University
“This work provides an enormously valuable temporal perspective (in the double sense of both retrospects and prospects) on some key ideas from the very distinguished career of Ulf Hannerz. While all the chapters are clearly influenced by Hannerz, some of them push his seminal ideas in exciting new directions.” · A. Jamie Saris, National University of Ireland, Maynooth
“The chapters bring to light the visionary work of Ulf Hannerz, not only presenting a set of thoughtful essays about current and future anthropological practice, but also highlight Hannerz's nuanced and visionary thinking, an event that in my view will be of deep disciplinary significance.” · Paul Stoller, West Chester University
Table of Contents Introduction: Ulf Hannerz and the Militant Middle Ground
Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Christina Garsten, and Shalini Randeria
Chapter 1. Divided by a Shared Destiny: An Anthropologist’s Notes from an Overheated World
Thomas Hylland Eriksen
Chapter 2.Juxtapositions: Social and Material Connectedness in a Pottery Community
Brian Moeran
Chapter 3. Connecting and Disconnecting: Intentionality, Anonymity, and Transnational Networks in Upper Yemen
Andre Gingrich
Chapter 4. Global Swirl at Dupont Circle: Think Tanks, Connectivity, and the Making of “The Global”
Christina Garsten
Chapter 5. Reflexivity Reloaded: From Anthropology of Intellectuals to Critique of Method to Studying Sideways
Dominic Boyer
Chapter 6. On Anthropologists and Other Cultural Interpreters
Thomas Blom Hansen
Chapter 7. Traveling between Knowledge Practices
Thomas Fillitz
Chapter 8. Anthropologist in the Irish Literary World: Reflexivity through Studying Sideways
Helena Wulff
Chapter 9. Reflections in and on The Hall of Mirrors
Gudrun Dahl
Chapter 10. On the Shores of Power: Cultural Diversity Turn, Cultural Policies, and the Location of Migrants
Ayse Caglar
Chapter 11. Emergent Concept Chains and Scenarios of Depoliticization: The Case of Global Governance as a Future Past
Ronald Stade
Chapter 12. Lusotopy as Ecumene
João De Pina-Cabral
Chapter 13. An Anthropologist of the World: Interview with Ulf Hannerz, September 2012
Dominic Boyer
Publications by Ulf Hannerz
Notes on Contributors
