Anthropology's world : life in a twenty-first-century discipline / Ulf Hannerz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hannerz, Ulf.

Series:

Anthropology, culture, and society.

Anthropology, Culture and Society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anthropology.

Physical Description:

vii, 203 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Pluto, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Maps the contemporary social world of anthropologists and its relation to the wider world in which they carry out their work.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Acknowledgments

Series Preface

1. Introduction: In the World, and a World in Itself

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

Notes

References

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 184-198) and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

ISBN:

9781783713769

1783713763

9781849645652

1849645655

OCLC:

847509864

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access