Ulf Hannerz, (born June 9, 1942, in

Malmö Malmö (, ; da, Malmø ) is the largest city in the Swedish county (län) of Scania (Skåne). It is the third-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg, and the sixth-largest city in the Nordic region, with a municipal pop ...

) is a Swedish anthropologist. He is currently an emeritus professor of social anthropology at Stockholm University.Ulf Hannerz, Professor Emeritus
Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University. Website accessed September 15, 2011. He is also a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences., the

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and the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Hannerz's research interests includes urban societies, local media cultures, transnational cultural processes, and globalization. His works ''Soulside'' and ''Exploring the City'' are classic books in the area of

urban anthropology Urban anthropology is a subset of anthropology concerned with issues of urbanization, poverty, urban space, social relations, and neoliberalism. The field has become consolidated in the 1960s and 1970s. Ulf Hannerz quotes a 1960s remark that trad ...

. Hannerz is the author of “Cosmopolitans and Locals in World Culture” (1990). His theory essentially explores cosmopolitanism from the analysis of expatriates. In 2000, Hannerz delivered the Lewis Henry Morgan Lecture at the

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,Key Figures in Creole Studies - Ulf Hannerz
, Warwick University Department of Sociology website, accessed September 15, 2011 considered by many to be the most important annual lecture series in the field of Anthropology. In 2005, he received an

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from The Faculty of Social Sciences,

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at the University of Oslo

''The 10,000 Kronor Question''

Hannerz gained some notability as a child, 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 ''

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''. In the first episode, aired on 12 January 1957, 14-year-old Hannerz presented by his nickname ''Hajen'' (''The Shark''), was quizzed on the subject "tropical aquarium fish". Hannerz succeeded in winning 10,000 Kronor in spite of a judgement error in the program. The judge asked him which of the seven displayed fish had lids. He answered "''hundfisk''" ( mudminnow). "No," the judge said, "it's ''slamkrypare'' ( mudskipper)." He wanted to dismiss young Ulf from the game show. However, Ulf Hannerz was indeed correct, and the name ''slamkrypare'' (mudskipper) entered the Swedish language as a term for a cocksure, but incorrect, assertion.''Södra Ängby - trädgårdsstad i funkis'', Gunnar Olofgörs ''et al'', Stockholm : Stockholmia, 2001

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.''

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''The 10,000 Kronor Question''

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