Cultural Intimacy: Social Poetics in the Nation-State

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Routledge, May 12, 2014 - Political Science - 296 pages
In 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
Regular Guys and Irregular Practices
183
Chapter Nine The Practice of Stereotypes
201
Toward a Militant Middle Ground?
211
Notes
225
References cited
241
Index
269
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Michael Herzfeld is Professor of Anthropology at Harvard University. He is the recipient of numerous grants, prizes, and awards and has lectured and taught at universities around the world. Herzfeld is former editor of American Ethnologist. His past fieldwork has focused on Greece, and he is currently researching gentrification and management of the past in Thailand.

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