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Twenty years ago, Ulf Hannerz nudged cultural anthropologists to consider the places most in need of ethnographic work. ‘Where are the least-understood cultures now?’ he asked. ‘In Lagos or Paris, San Francisco or Bombay’, replied Hannerz, ‘[in] cities with slums and skyscrapers. … They are the cultures of cities, nations, and the world system, rather than of villages or bands.’ Work in these places, Hannerz continued,
should help us see in all their haziness the views people have of other people’s views, and offer some indication of the significance of that metacultural sensibility which may build up when people are aware of cultural alternatives. [It] should offer some insight into what happens when the connection between culture and locality is attenuated, so that someone may be more linked through his ideas to an individual living thousands of miles away than he is to his neighbor next door. (Hannerz 1986, pp. 363–364)
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George, K.M. (2007). Art and Identity Politics: Nation, Religion, Ethnicity, Elsewhere. In: Robinson, K. (eds) Asian and Pacific Cosmopolitans. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230592049_3
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