Anthropology's World

In this masterly, state of the art work, 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 writ...