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Nigeria is a country shaped by internal diversity and transnational connections, past and present. Leading Nigerian writers from Chinua Achebe, Amos Tutuola and Wole Soyinka to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Teju Cole have portrayed these Nigerian issues, and have also written about some of the momentous events in Nigerian history. Afropolitan Horizons discusses their work alongside other novelists and commentators, as well as describing the ways in which Nigeria has appeared in foreign news reporting. It is all interwoven with the author's own anthropological field research in a town in Central Nigeria.

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

How does smallness shape a country and its relations with other countries? In comparative case studies that cover a diverse set of regions, Small Countries describes a number of similar problems with which small countries must cope, on domestic levels as well as in their transnational and global encounters

A work that reassesses the issues that have always affected anthropology: what is anthropology for; how do anthropologists want their work to be understood; for whom do they write, and in what language?

In his panoramic new book, Ulf Hannerz cements his reputation as one of anthropology's finest writers. He describes how anthropology came to be a major intellectual discipline, why it is vital that it remains so, and the problems it might face in the immediate future.

Turning the anthropologist's toolkit upon the discipline itself, and asking searching questions of the purpose, ethics and future of the subject, Anthropology's World should be required reading for all students and practitioners of anthropology.