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ISBN: 9780415947404 - Cultural Intimacy Cultural Intimacy
Michael Herzfeld

ISBN10: 0415947405  ISBN13: 9780415947404
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Routledge
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 13 Jan 2005
In this new revised edition, Herzfeld expands his discussion of what cultural intimacy has come to mean, and explores how it can contribute to present studies of global processes and the forces that resist them. In this new updated edition... More

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ISBN: 9780691102443 - The Poetics of Manhood The Poetics of Manhood
Michael Herzfeld

ISBN10: 0691102449  ISBN13: 9780691102443
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Nov 1988
'This assured, stylish study explores sympathetically the ways in which Cretan shepards dignify their lives in a country where their status is low.'-Peter Loizos, The Times Literary Supplement "The Cretan mountain-dwellers are in particular famous... More

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ISBN: 9780226329086 - The Social Production of Indifference The Social Production of Indifference
Michael Herzfeld

ISBN10: 0226329089  ISBN13: 9780226329086
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press University of Chicago Press
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Aug 1993
Herzfeld argues that "modern" bureaucratically regulated societies are no more "rational" or less "symbolic" than the societies traditionally studied by anthropologists. He suggests that we cannot understand national bureaucracies divorced from... More

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ISBN: 9780631206590 - Anthropology Anthropology
Michael Herzfeld Herzfeld, Michael

ISBN10: 0631206590  ISBN13: 9780631206590
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd Blackwell Publishers
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 08 Dec 2000
Anthropology: Theoretical Practice in Culture and Society builds on a collaborative, international project sponsored by UNESCO to offer an overview of social and cultural anthropology. Not a textbook in the ordinary sense, this volume explores the... More

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ISBN: 9780226329109 - Portrait of a Greek Imagination Portrait of a Greek Imagination
Michael Herzfeld

ISBN10: 0226329100  ISBN13: 9780226329109
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press University of Chicago Press
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 16 Jan 1998
In Portrait of a Greek Imagination, Michael Hetzfeld succeeds in telling the life history of Andreas Nenedakis in a way that beautifully connects autobiographic and ethnographic levels of understanding. One learns a great deal about Nenedakis as a... More

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ISBN: 9780226329147 - The Body Impolitic The Body Impolitic
Michael Herzfeld

ISBN10: 0226329143  ISBN13: 9780226329147
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press University of Chicago Press
Edition: illustrated edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 02 Dec 2003
"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 necks of those who are condemned to produce it. "The Body Impolitic" is a critical study of... More

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ISBN: 9780226329123 - Evicted from Eternity Evicted from Eternity
Michael Herzfeld

ISBN10: 0226329127  ISBN13: 9780226329123
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press University of Chicago Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 19 May 2009
Focuses on Rome's historic Monti district and the wrenching dislocation caused by rapid economic, political, and social change. This book tells the story of the gentrification of Monti - once the architectural home of a community of artisans and... More

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ISBN: 9780521389082 - Anthropology Through the Looking-glass Anthropology Through the Looking-glass
Michael Herzfeld

ISBN10: 0521389089  ISBN13: 9780521389082
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 25 Aug 1989
Using Greek ethnography as a mirror for an ethnography of anthropology itself, this book reveals the ways in which the discipline of anthropology is ensnared in the same political and social symbolism as its object of study. The author pushes the... More

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ISBN: 9780691028552 - A Place in History A Place in History
Michael Herzfeld

ISBN10: 0691028559  ISBN13: 9780691028552
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 07 Oct 1991
Describes what happens when a bureaucracy charged with historic conservation clashes with a local populace hostile to the state and suspicious of tourism. Focusing on the Cretan town of Rethemnos, once a center of learning under Venetian rule and... More

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ISBN: 9780854966387 - The Social Production of Indifference The Social Production of Indifference
Michael Herzfeld

ISBN10: 0854966382  ISBN13: 9780854966387
Publisher: A & C Black Publishers Ltd Berg Publishers
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 20 Feb 1992
In this fascinating book, Michael Herzfeld argues that 'modern' bureaucratically regulated societies are no more 'rational' or less 'symbolic' than the societies traditionally studied by anthropologists. Drawing primarily on the example of modern... More