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Social Poetics in the Nation-state
'Cultural Intimacy' reveals that every nation-state has its own 'dirty laundry'. In this book, the authors looks at what constitutes 'dirty laundry' a...
Theoretical Practice in Culture and Society
Not a textbook in the ordinary sense, this work offers a vision of how anthropology - a discipline that operates through intimate knowledge of local s...
Social Poetics and the Real Life of States, Societies, and Institutions
In the third edition of this important and influential book, Michael Herzfeld revisits the idea of ‘cultural intimacy’. The chapters examine a ran...
Folklore, Ideology, and the Making of Modern Greece
When this work – one that contributes to both the history and anthropology fields – first appeared in 1982, it was hailed as a landmark study of t...
Artisans and Artifice in the Global Hierarchy of Value
The Body Impolitic is a critical study of tradition, not merely as an ornament of local and national heritage, but also as a millstone around the neck...
In this fascinating book, Michael Herzfeld argues that 'modern' bureaucratically regulated societies are no more 'rational' or less 'symbolic' than th...
Critical Ethnography in the Margins of Europe
Despite having emerged in the heyday of a dominant Europe, of which Ancient Greece is the hallowed spiritual and intellectual ancestor, anthropology h...
Contest and Identity in a Cretan Mountain Village
The description for this book, The Poetics of Manhood: Contest and Identity in a Cretan Mountain Village, will be forthcoming....
Troubling Traditionalists and the Politics of National Heritage
In Subversive Archaism, Michael Herzfeld explores how individuals and communities living at the margins of the modern nation-state use nationalist dis...
Exploring the Symbolic Roots of Western Bureaucracy
An Ethnographic Biography of Andreas Nenedakis
Anthropologist Michael Herzfeld first met Greek novelist Andreas Nenedakis in the courtyard of a public library. Their enduring friendship prompted He...
Social and Monumental Time in a Cretan Town
Michael Herzfeld describes what happens when a bureaucracy charged with historic conservation clashes with a local populace hostile to the state and s...
The Restructuring of Modern Rome
Modern Rome is a city rife with contradictions. Once the seat of ancient glory, it is now often the object of national contempt. It plays a significan...
Community and Polity in Bangkok
What happens when three hundred alleged squatters go head-to-head with an enormous city government looking to develop the place where they live? As an...
This volume contains the majority of the papers presented at the Fifth Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of America, held in Lubbock, Texas, Octo...
A Julian Pitt-Rivers Omnibus
Brings together the definitive essays and lectures of the influential social anthropologist Julian A. Pitt-Rivers, a corpus of work that has, until no...
A special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly...