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1 online resource (ix, 258 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgments; Prospectus: stops along the way; "Being there" and "the first draft of history"; Anewcomer on campus; Hanging out on Winston Street; Writing- for whom?; Myrdal and me: perspectives on Black America, over time; The travels of the ghetto concept; Afield remembered and revisited; The urban turn in anthropology; Danger in the streets; Defending Sweden, briefly; Cayman Islands: crisis in the Crown Colony; From Mathilda Corner to Magajiya Street; Afootball hero gets into trouble |
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Cultural growth in an interconnected worldKnowledge across borders: missionaries, spies, newspeople; Streets and screens in the global village; Two, three, many fields- in one; Soweto and Sophiatown; Kafanchan again: "being there," and "having been there"; Anthropology at home; The coming of diversity; In and out of Sweden: small worlds; Notes; References; 1. The notion of ghetto culture; Notes; References; 2. Washington and Kafanchan: a view of urban anthropology; Aneighborhood in Black America; The complexity of Kafanchan; Two senses of urban anthropology; Notes; References |
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3. The management of dangerThe tsotsi paradigm; Street wisdom I: the dangerous encounter; Street wisdom II: mapping danger; Dangerous appearances; Danger as put-on; Organizing against danger; The danger complex; Notes; References; 4. Marginal entrepreneurship and economic change in the Cayman Islands; The development of the tourist industry; Case history 1: Melville Bodden; Case history 2: Evelyn Watler; Case history 3: Bertram Wood; Conclusions: entrepreneurship on a shoestring; Notes; References; 5. Tools of identity and imagination; A view of identity |
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Books, portraits and movies: the artifacts of identityAssertions and experiments; Checking and recording; Different equations; Notes; References; 6. The world in creolization; Notes; References; 7. Flows, boundaries and hybrids: keywords in transnational anthropology; Flows; Boundaries (borders, frontiers, beaches); Hybrids, and other terms of mixture; Conclusion: the words and the world; Notes; References; 8. Other transnationals: perspectives gained from studying sideways; Others, and others' others; Otherness in the news: routines and emphases; Earthquake in Kobe; Geishas and looting |
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Conclusion: crises, changes, opportunitiesNotes; References; 9. Being there ... and there ... and there! Reflections on multi-site ethnography; Among the foreign correspondents; Constituting the multi-site field; Questions of breadth and relationships; Site temporalities; Materials: interviews, observations, etc.; An art of the possible: fitting field work into lives; Notes; References; 10. Foreign correspondents and the varieties of cosmopolitanism; Spiralists and long-timers; Routes and roots; A sense of wonder, and the baggage from home; Making audiences feel at home in the world |
| Summary |
This book reflects on the author's distinguished scholarly career over half a century, linking personal biography to changes in the discipline of anthropology. Ulf Hannerz presents a number of important essays and a brand new chapter that allow readers to track developments in his own thinking and interests as well as broader changes in the field. In doing so he provides students with valuable insight into the research process and the building of an anthropological career. Featuring work conducted in the United States, Africa, Sweden, Hong Kong, and the Cayman Islands, the book spans a period in which anthropology adapted to new global circumstances and challenges. Hannerz covers the emergence of the fields of urban anthropology, transnational anthropology, and media anthropology in which he has played a significant role. The chapters demonstrate interdisciplinary openings toward other fields and bear witness to anthropology's connections to world history and to public debates |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Ulf Hannerz is Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University, Sweden |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 10, 2019) |
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Hannerz, Ulf.
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| SUBJECT |
Hannerz, Ulf fast |
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Urban anthropology.
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Anthropologists -- Sweden -- Biography
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
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Anthropologists
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Urban anthropology
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Sweden
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autobiographies (literary works)
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Autobiographies
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Biographies
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780429456534 |
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0429456530 |
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9780429852008 |
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0429852002 |
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9780429852015 |
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0429852010 |
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9780429852022 |
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0429852029 |
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