{"product_id":"anthropologys-world-life-in-a-twentyfirstcentury-discipline-anthropology-culture-and-society-9780745330471","title":"Anthropologys World Life in a TwentyFirstCentury Discipline Anthropology Culture and Society","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMaps the contemporary social world of anthropologists and its relation to the wider world in which they carry out their work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'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\u003cbr\u003e'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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Introduction: In the World, and a World in Itself - Chair of the European Association of Social Anthropologists\u003cbr\u003e  2. Editing Anthropology: Two Experiences in Space and Time \u003cbr\u003e  3. Diversity Is Our Business\u003cbr\u003e  4. Field Worries: Studying Down, Up, Sideways, Through, Backward, Forward, Early or Later, Away and at Home \u003cbr\u003e  5. Making the World Transparent\u003cbr\u003e  6. Flat World and the Tower of Babel: Linguistic Practices in a Global Discipline\u003cbr\u003e  7. Before and After: Exploring the Usable Past\u003cbr\u003e  8. And Next, Briefly: Toward 2050 \u003cbr\u003e  Notes\u003cbr\u003e  References\u003cbr\u003e  Index","brand":"Pluto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51742286446935,"sku":"9780745330471","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780745330471.jpg?v=1758383994","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/anthropologys-world-life-in-a-twentyfirstcentury-discipline-anthropology-culture-and-society-9780745330471","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}