Anthropology's World

Ulf Hannerz is Professor Emeritus of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University and a former Chair of the European Association of Social Anthropologists. He is the author of Anthropology's World: Life in a Twenty-first-century Discipline (Pluto, 2010) and Foreign News (2004).

• 1. Introduction: In the World, and a World in Itself - Chair of the European Association of Social Anthropologists2. Editing Anthropology: Two Experiences in Space and Time 3. Diversity Is Our Business4. Field Worries: Studying Down, Up, Sideways, Through, Backward, Forward, Early or Later, Away and at Home 5. Making the World Transparent6. Flat World and the Tower of Babel: Linguistic Practices in a Global Discipline7. Before and After: Exploring the Usable Past8. And Next, Briefly: Toward 2050 NotesReferencesIndex

'Ulf Hannerz takes readers behind-the-scenes with wit, insight, political acuity, and a good measure of humanity. His observations about the frequent privileging of English in today's 'global discipline' and its consequences are especially sharp'