- Paperback: 272 pages
- Publisher: University of Chicago Press (16 Jan 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0226315754
- ISBN-13: 978-0226315751
- Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 15.5 x 1.5 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 880,264 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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""Foreign News" is a great contribution to the anthropology of work. The rich ethnographic material, the correspondents'' narratives and the pace of the text were excellent."--Rob Johnston, "Anthropology of Work Review"--Rob Johnston "Anthropology of Work Review "
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"Foreign News" gives us a fascinating, behind-the-scenes look into the practices of the global tribe we call foreign correspondents. Exploring how they work, Ulf Hannerz also compares the ways correspondents and anthropologists report from one part of the world to another.
Hannerz draws on extensive interviews with correspondents in cities as diverse as Jerusalem, Tokyo, and Johannesburg. He shows not only how different story lines evolve in different correspondent beats, but also how the correspondents' home country and personal interests influence the stories they write. Reporting can go well beyond coverage of a specific event, using the news instead to reveal deeper insights into a country or a people to link them to long-term trends or structures of global significance. Ultimately, Hannerz argues that both anthropologists and foreign correspondents can learn from each other in their efforts to educate a public about events and peoples far beyond our homelands.
The result of nearly a decade's worth of work, "Foreign News" is a provocative study that will appeal to both general readers and those concerned with globalization.
Hannerz draws on extensive interviews with correspondents in cities as diverse as Jerusalem, Tokyo, and Johannesburg. He shows not only how different story lines evolve in different correspondent beats, but also how the correspondents' home country and personal interests influence the stories they write. Reporting can go well beyond coverage of a specific event, using the news instead to reveal deeper insights into a country or a people to link them to long-term trends or structures of global significance. Ultimately, Hannerz argues that both anthropologists and foreign correspondents can learn from each other in their efforts to educate a public about events and peoples far beyond our homelands.
The result of nearly a decade's worth of work, "Foreign News" is a provocative study that will appeal to both general readers and those concerned with globalization.
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So there I am again, early on a Stockholm morning, barely awake, gulping down my coffee, scanning the newspaper, listening to the Radio Sweden news program, and a familiar voice comes on, which I have heard a great many times over the last couple of years. Read the first page
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So there I am again, early on a Stockholm morning, barely awake, gulping down my coffee, scanning the newspaper, listening to the Radio Sweden news program, and a familiar voice comes on, which I have heard a great many times over the last couple of years. Read the first page
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The topic is fascinating, and the author is an experienced and thoughtful anthropologist. But the book still fails to take off. It does not have any particularly strong argument to make, and the case studies consist of a few summaries of routine published newspaper articles plus casual observations from the field.
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