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 literature to multinational corporations.
Table of Content
Introduction: Ulf Hannerz and the Militant Middle Ground
Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Christina Garsten, and Shalini Randeria
Chapter 1. Divided by a Shared Destiny: An Anthropologist’s Notes from an Overheated World
Thomas Hylland Eriksen
Chapter 2.Juxtapositions: Social and Material Connectedness in a Pottery Community
Brian Moeran
Chapter 3. Connecting and Disconnecting: Intentionality, Anonymity, and Transnational Networks in Upper Yemen
Andre Gingrich
Chapter 4. Global Swirl at Dupont Circle: Think Tanks, Connectivity, and the Making of “The Global”
Christina Garsten
Chapter 5. Reflexivity Reloaded: From Anthropology of Intellectuals to Critique of Method to Studying Sideways
Dominic Boyer
Chapter 6. On Anthropologists and Other Cultural Interpreters
Thomas Blom Hansen
Chapter 7. Traveling between Knowledge Practices
Thomas Fillitz
Chapter 8. Anthropologist in the Irish Literary World: Reflexivity through Studying Sideways
Helena Wulff
Chapter 9. Reflections in and on The Hall of Mirrors
Gudrun Dahl
Chapter 10. On the Shores of Power: Cultural Diversity Turn, Cultural Policies, and the Location of Migrants
Ayse Caglar
Chapter 11. Emergent Concept Chains and Scenarios of Depoliticization: The Case of Global Governance as a Future Past
Ronald Stade
Chapter 12. Lusotopy as Ecumene
João De Pina-Cabral
Chapter 13. An Anthropologist of the World: Interview with Ulf Hannerz, September 2012
Dominic Boyer
Publications by Ulf Hannerz
Notes on Contributors
About the author
Thomas Hylland Eriksen (1962-2024) was Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo. His research in complex societies ranged from identity politics to the cultural implications of new information technology, and he also studied local responses to global crises. His books include Ethnicity and Nationalism (1993/2010), Engaging Anthropology (2006) and Globalization: The Key Concepts (2007/2014).
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