World Watching: Streetcorners and Newsbeats on a Journey Through Anthropology

ISBN-13: 9781138315136 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 258 str.

Ulf Hannerz

Opis

This book reflects on the author’s distinguished scholarly career over half a century, linking personal biography to changes in the discipline of anthropology.

Spis treści

Prospectus: stops along the way  1. The notion of ghetto culture  2. Washington and Kafanchan: a view of urban anthropology  3. The management of danger  4. Marginal entrepreneurship and economic change in the Cayman Islands  5. Tools of identity and imagination  6. The world in creolization  7. Flows, boundaries and hybrids: keywords in transnational anthropology  8. Other transnationals: perspectives gained from studying sideways  9. Being there...and there...and there! Reflections on multi-site ethnography  10. Foreign correspondents and the varieties of cosmopolitanism  11. Touring Soweto: culture and memory in urban South Africa  12. Reflections on varieties of culturespeak  13. A detective story writer: exploring Stockholm as it once was  14. Neighbors in a south Swedish village: globalization, small-scale and unexpected

O autorze

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