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Book SynopsisMaps the contemporary social world of anthropologists and its relation to the wider world in which they carry out their work.
Trade Review'Ulf Hannerz takes readers behind-the-scenes with wit, insight, political acuity, and a good measure of humanity. His observations about the frequent privileging of English in today's 'global discipline' and its consequences are especially sharp' -- Virginia R. Dominguez, President, American Anthropological Association, Edward William and Jane Marr Gutgsell Professor of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Co-Founder and Consulting Director, International Forum for U.S. Studies
'Widely admired as a leading anthropologist of globalisation, 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 refuses to be beaten into submission' -- Thomas Hylland Eriksen is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo. He is the author of numerous books, including Ethnicity and Nationalism, A History of Anthropology, Small Places, Large Issues, Tyranny of the Moment and Globalisation, all available from Pluto Press
Table of Contents1. Introduction: In the World, and a World in Itself - Chair of the European Association of Social Anthropologists
2. Editing Anthropology: Two Experiences in Space and Time
3. Diversity Is Our Business
4. Field Worries: Studying Down, Up, Sideways, Through, Backward, Forward, Early or Later, Away and at Home
5. Making the World Transparent
6. Flat World and the Tower of Babel: Linguistic Practices in a Global Discipline
7. Before and After: Exploring the Usable Past
8. And Next, Briefly: Toward 2050
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