Cultural Intimacy: Social Poetics in the Nation-StateIn this new updated edition, Herzfeld includes more discussion about what cultural intimacy has come to mean for other authors and researchers, and how it can contribute to present studies of global processes and the forces that resist them. |
Contents
Chapter One Introducing Cultural Intimacy | 1 |
Chapter Two New Reflections on the Geopolitics of Cultural Intimacy | 39 |
Chapter Three Of Definitions and Boundaries | 73 |
Chapter Four Persuasive Resemblances | 93 |
From Troubled Waters to Boiling Blood | 111 |
Chapter Six Cultural Intimacy and the Meaning of Europe | 127 |
Time and the Oath in the Mountain Villages of Crete | 147 |
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