Anthropology Now and Next

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).

• Introduction: Ulf Hannerz and the Militant Middle GroundThomas Hylland Eriksen, Christina Garsten, and Shalini RanderiaChapter 1. Divided by a Shared Destiny: An Anthropologist’s Notes from an Overheated WorldThomas Hylland EriksenChapter 2.Juxtapositions: Social and Material Connectedness in a Pottery CommunityBrian MoeranChapter 3. Connecting and Disconnecting: Intentionality, Anonymity, and Transnational Networks in Upper YemenAndre GingrichChapter 4. Global Swirl at Dupont Circle: Think Tanks, Connectivity, and the Making of “The Global”Christina GarstenChapter 5. Reflexivity Reloaded: From Anthropology of Intellectuals to Critique of Method to Studying SidewaysDominic BoyerChapter 6. On Anthropologists and Other Cultural InterpretersThomas Blom HansenChapter 7. Traveling between Knowledge PracticesThomas FillitzChapter 8. Anthropologist in the Irish Literary World: Reflexivity through Studying SidewaysHelena WulffChapter 9. Reflections in and on The Hall of MirrorsGudrun DahlChapter 10. On the Shores of Power: Cultural Diversity Turn, Cultural Policies, and the Location of MigrantsAyse CaglarChapter 11. Emergent Concept Chains and Scenarios of Depoliticization: The Case of Global Governance as a Future PastRonald StadeChapter 12. Lusotopy as EcumeneJoão De Pina-CabralChapter 13. An Anthropologist of the World: Interview with Ulf Hannerz, September 2012Dominic BoyerPublications by Ulf HannerzNotes on Contributors

“The chapters range over a fascinating territory of institutions and sites… {The volume] is very well titled, as it is at once a sort of retrospective and, more importantly, a future oriented study of what anthropology can and should become.”  ·  Anthropology Review Database“The cosmopolitan anthropologist Ulf Hannerz has been engaged for forty years on a multi-site ethnography of the intricate web of relationships that he calls the global ecumene. To this ambitious, protean project he has brought remarkable erudition, the insights of the social sciences, and the style and sensibility of a humanist.”  ·  Adam Kuper, London School of Economics“One of anthropology’s most prescient, capacious, and original thinkers, Hannerz is unique in his worldliness, his genial humanity. He has long epitomized the genius of his discipline to cast light on a culturally complex, translocal world.”  ·  Jean Comaroff, Harvard University“This work provides an enormously valuable temporal perspective (in the double sense of both retrospects and prospects) on some key ideas from the very distinguished career of Ulf Hannerz. While all the chapters are clearly influenced by Hannerz, some of them push his seminal ideas in exciting new directions.”  ·  A. Jamie Saris, National University of Ireland, Maynooth“The chapters bring to light the visionary work of Ulf Hannerz, not only presenting a set of thoughtful essays about current and future anthropological practice, but also highlight Hannerz's nuanced and visionary thinking, an event that in my view will be of deep disciplinary significance.”  ·  Paul Stoller, West Chester University