Suchergebnisse

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.

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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.

ABSTRACT  Anthropologists have tended to portray their discipline as in crisis and ask whether "the end of anthropology" is near. I offer indicators to suggest that the discipline is alive and well as far as its internal activities are concerned. I then turn to the more worrying question of its external image, understandings and stereotypes more or less common among a wider public: the anthropologist as antiquarian and insensitive, slightly lost in real life. Anthropologists have been ineffective in offering a simple, coherent view of what the discipline is and what holds it together. I propose that a consistent emphasis on "diversity" as what anthropology is about best matches our combined interests and practices. To have a strong "brand" is essential under present‐day cultural and political conditions, in and out of academic life. The foregrounding of "diversity" goes with the anthropological concern with ethnography, comparison, and cultural critique.