Ulf Hannerz, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Ulf Hannerz

Swedish anthropologist

Date of Birth: 09-Jun-1942

Place of Birth: Malmö, Skåne County, Sweden

Profession: university teacher, anthropologist

Nationality: Sweden

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

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 member of the Royal Swedish 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.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 University of Rochester, considered by many to be the most 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.