Anthropologys World Life In A Twentyfirstcentury Discipline

"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."--Virginia R. Dominguez, President, American Anthropological, Edward William and Jane Marr Gutgsell Professor of Anthropology University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. "Widely admired as a leading anthropologist of globalization, Hannerz ... shows how anthropology came to be a central intellectual discipline, and why it should stay that way in a globalized world where the local refuses to be beaten into submission."--Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo. In this masterly book, Ulf Hannerz maps the contemporary social world of anthropologists and its relation to the wider world in which they carry out their work. Raising fundamental questions such as "What is anthropology really about?", "How does the public understand, or misunderstand, anthropology?" and "What and where do anthropologists study now, and for whom do they write?" Hannerz invites anthropologists to think again about where their disci