Ulf Hannerz Knihy

Exploring Nigeria's rich internal diversity and global connections, this book delves into the works of prominent Nigerian authors like Chinua Achebe and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, highlighting their reflections on significant historical events. It examines how Nigeria is represented in foreign media and includes the author's anthropological research in a Central Nigerian town, providing a comprehensive view of the country's cultural and social landscape.

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.

Nigeria is a country shaped by internal diversity and transnational connections, past and present. Leading Nigerian writers 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.

Foreign News gives us a fascinating, behind-the-scenes look into the practices of the global tribe we call foreign correspondents. Exploring how they work, Ulf Hannerz also compares the ways correspondents and anthropologists report from one part of the world to another. Hannerz draws on extensive interviews with correspondents in cities as diverse as Jerusalem, Tokyo, and Johannesburg. He shows not only how different story lines evolve in different correspondent beats, but also how the correspondents' home country and personal interests influence the stories they write. Reporting can go well beyond coverage of a specific event, using the news instead to reveal deeper insights into a country or a people to link them to long-term trends or structures of global significance. Ultimately, Hannerz argues that both anthropologists and foreign correspondents can learn from each other in their efforts to educate a public about events and peoples far beyond our homelands. The result of nearly a decade's worth of work, Foreign News is a provocative study that will appeal to both general readers and those concerned with globalization.

Maps the contemporary social world of anthropologists and its relation to the wider world in which they carry out their work.

This volume presents a comprehensive analysis of global future scenarios and their impact on a growing, shared culture. Ever since the end of the Cold War, a diverse range of future concepts has emerged in various areas of academia—and even in popular journalism. A number of these key concepts—‘the end of history,’ ‘the clash of civilizations,’ ‘the coming anarchy,’ ‘the world is flat,’ ‘soft power,’ ‘the post-American century’—suggest what could become characteristic of this new, interconnected world. Ulf Hannerz scrutinizes these ideas, considers their legacy, and suggests further dialogue between authors of the ‘American scenario’ and commentators elsewhere.

A bold attempt to provide a coherent and unified theoretical understanding of urbanism that draws upon history, sociology, and geography, to bring intellectual unity to the history and development of urban anthropology.

Focusing on the impact of globalization, this book examines how cultural understandings are evolving in a connected world. It challenges traditional concepts of "the local," "community," "nation," and "modernity," highlighting the effects of boundary-crossings and cultural exchanges. By engaging with both theoretical discussions and contemporary living, it offers insights into the complexities of culture in an age where national definitions are increasingly inadequate.