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I agree with your professor, it is good politics and also good scholarship to name drop everyone working in the same narrow field as your published article. It shows that you do have a comprehensive familiarity with the literature (and you should) and, valuably, it provides a resource for the next person working on your topic. Finding a 'frame' to introduce each paper can be time consuming, but it is a useful task for understanding how your paper fits in the scheme of things. For this reason, reading a paper without the links is really annoying for someone new to a field. But a paper with well-developed links -- especially a recent review article -- can be the best place to start learning a new topic or to build a citation list from.
Hmm, in such agreement ... do you suppose I might be your professor? (Just kidding.)
You and he may agree less than you think. When pressed, he admitted that this will frequently lead to citing quite a lot of information that isn't particularly relevant to your paper. When you're working in a particular sub-field, it's good to be apprised of the current state of the research, but anyone who simply needs to know the content of your research will end up being bombarded with more information than is actually pertinent. If you want to create a resource for someone who's not already a specialist to become apprised of all the research in your field, you can do a literature review article.