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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815998403321

Titolo

Anthropology now and next : essays in honor of Ulf Hannerz / / edited by Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Christina Garsten, and Shalini Randeria

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Berghahn, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-78238-450-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (324 p.)

Disciplina

301.01

Soggetti

Anthropology - Philosophy

Anthropology - Methodology

Anthropological ethics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction - Ulf Hannerz and the Militant Middle Ground; Chapter 1 - Divided by a Shared Destiny; Chapter 2 - Juxtapositions; Chapter 3 - Connecting and Disconnecting; Chapter 4 - Global Swirl at Dupont Circle; Chapter 5 - Reflexivity Reloaded; Chapter 6 - On Anthropologists and Other Cultural Interpreters; Chapter 7 - Traveling between Knowledge Practices; Chapter 8 - Anthropologist in the Irish Literary World; Chapter 9 - Reflections in and on the Hall of Mirrors; Chapter 10 - On the Shores of Power; Chapter 11 - Emergent Concept Chains and Scenarios of Depoliticization

Chapter 12 - Lusotopy as EcumeneChapter 13 - An Anthropologist of the World; Publications by Ulf Hannerz; Notes on Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 literatur