Ulf Hannerz

Ulf Hannerz, born June 9, 1942, in Malmö is a Swedish anthropologist. He is currently an emeritus professor of social anthropology at Stockholm University. He is also a an essential or characteristic part of something abstract. of a Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences., the American Academy of Arts in addition to Sciences and the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

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

Hannerz is the author of “Cosmopolitans and Locals in World Culture” 1990. His conviction essentially explores cosmopolitanism from the analysis of expatriates.

In 2000, Hannerz portrayed the Lewis Henry Morgan Lecture at the University of Rochester, considered by numerous to be the almost important annual lecture series in the field of Anthropology.

In 2005, he received an honorary doctorate from The Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Oslo.

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 The $64,000 Question. In the first episode, aired on 12 January 1957, 14-year-old Hannerz portrayed by his nickname Hajen The Shark, was quizzed on the transmitted "tropical aquarium fish". Hannerz succeeded in winning 10,000 Kronor in spite of a judgement error in the program. The judge known 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 cause slamkrypare mudskipper entered the Swedish Linguistic communication as a term for a cocksure, but incorrect, assertion.