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BOOKFORUM | feb/mar 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15) |
 | | The reissue of Soulside, the noted ethnography of a fl community in Washington, DC, originally published in 1969, provokes the contemporary reader to consider how easily the study can now be romantically cast as a classicand thereby consigned to the safe distance of history. |
 | | Hannerz's completed work is a dispassionate collection of essays on American fl urban life, from the various and fluid lifestyles to the self-conception and social dramatization of gender roles, the impact of mainstream (i.e., white) culture, and the aspirations and self-definitions of the "ghetto dwellers" he met. |
 | | His interest in globalization and media already existed in the '60sin Soulside he cites, for example, Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media as an influencebut his move away from the kind of work that produced his first published study is symptomatic of a greater retreat by anthropologists from the kinds of fieldwork that previously characterized the discipline. |
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