Coedited by Shalini Randeria, professor of Anthropology and Sociology of Development at the Graduate Institute, the Festschrift Anthropology Now and Next: Essays in Honor of Ulf Hannerz highlights the ground-breaking nature of Ulf Hannerz’s scholarship with its ecumenical, cosmopolitan vision of anthropology. The volume, which brings together leading scholars from across the world, reflects on what anthropological practice means today in an increasingly interconnected world.

The authors pay tribute to the visionary aspects of Hannerz’s early work on cultural flows in Africa, urban life in the United States, transnational networks and processes of creolisation, the paradoxes of plural identities, as well as his more recent writings on the similarities between foreign newspaper correspondents and anthropologists, while exploring its significance for the future of the discipline.

The volume also addresses contemporary epistemological, ethical and theoretical challenges facing anthropological theory and practice. Inspired by Hannerz’s ideas and developing them in new directions, the authors examine topics ranging from cultural diversity in Europe to transnational networks in Yemen, and from the role of literature in conflict-torn societies to ethnographies of global governance, think tanks and multinational corporations.

Shalini Randeria was President of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA), served on the European Research Council (ERC) review panels, on the advisory board of the Wenner-Gren Foundation, New York, and on the editorial board of the Annual Review of Anthropology. She has published widely on the anthropology of globalisation, law, the state and social movements.

Eriksen, Thomas Hylland, Christina Garsten and Shalini Randeria (eds). Anthropology Now and Next: Essays in Honor of Ulf Hannerz. New York: Berghahn Books. 2015. 326 p.