Ulf Hannerz

Hannerz was born in Malmö on 9 June 1942. His family moved to Stockholm when he was a toddler. He grew up in the Södra Ängby neighborhood of western Stockholm. At the age of 14, he became a minor celebrity in Sweden when he appeared on the first episode of the television game show Kvitt eller dubbelt - 10.000 kronorsfrågan (literally: Double or Nothing - The 10,000 Kronor Question), which was based on the American television show The $64,000 Question. Hannerz was introduced with a nickname, Hajen (The Shark) and quizzed on "tropical aquarium fish." At one point, the judge asked him which of seven displayed fish had eyelids. He answered—correctly—"hundfisk" (mudminnow). "No," the judge said, "it's slamkrypare (mudskipper)." Hannerz would receive the 10,000 kronor prize despite the error, and in turn, slamkrypare (mudskipper) entered the Swedish language as a term for a cocksure, but incorrect, assertion., January 12, 1957 Around 1960, Hannerz made his first trips to West Africa at a time when many African nations were gaining independence from colonial empires. He would later credit this experience with inspiring his decision to pursue the study of anthropology. == Education ==

Hannerz matriculated at Stockholm University, where he originally planned to study zoology. His plans changed, however, when he took a course on ethnography. He would spend the subsequent years as a regular presence at the Department of Comparative and General Ethnography, earning a BA in 1963. He then moved to the United States to study at Indiana University Bloomington. He completed an MA in Anthropology there in 1966. The following years would see him move back and forth between Sweden and the United States, as he would do two years of ethnographic fieldwork among African-Americans in Washington, DC for the dissertation that would earn him a PhD at Stockholm University in 1969. That same year, he published Soulside: Inquiries into Ghetto Culture and Community, a monograph based on research in the United States. == Career ==

Hannerz join the Department of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University in 1976 as an acting professor. He was promoted to Professor in 1981. == Personal life ==

Hannerz is married to fellow anthropologist Helena Wulff. ==Books==

• (1969, 2004) Soulside: Inquiries into Ghetto Culture and Community 2004: • (1974) Caymanian Politics: Structure and Style in a Changing Island Society • (1980) Exploring the City: Inquiries Toward an Urban Anthropology, • (2006) Spanish translation: La exploracion de la ciudad, • (1992) Cultural Complexity: Studies in the Social Organization of Meaning • (1996) Transnational Connections: Culture, People, Places • (1998) Spanish translation: Conexiones transnacionales - Cultura, gente, lugares, • (2006) Polish translation: Powiązania transnarodowe: kultura, ludzie, miejsca, • (2000, with Kjell Goldmann, Ulf Hannerz, Charles Westin, eds.) Nationalism and Internationalism in the Post-Cold War Era • (2000) Flows, Boundaries and Hybrids: Keywords in Transnational Anthropology • (1992) Culture, Cities and the World • (1986, with Ulla Wagner) Anthropology of Immigration in Sweden • (2004) Foreign News: Exploring the World of Foreign Correspondents • (2010) ''Anthropology's World: Life in a Twenty-First Century Discipline'' • (2016) Writing Future Worlds: An Anthropologist Explores Global Scenarios. New York. • (2017) Small Countries: Structures and Sensibilities. (ed., with Andre Gingrich) Philadelphia. • (2019) World Watching: Streetcorners and Newsbeats on a Journey through Anthropology. London. • (2021) Afropolitan Horizons: Essays toward a Literary Anthropology of Nigeria. ==Further reading==