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Evicted from Eternity
The Restructuring of Modern Rome
E-bok, 2009
701 kr
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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 significant part on the world stage, but the concerns of its residents are often deeply parochial. And while they live in the seat of a world religion, Romans …
Social Production of Indifference
Häftad, 1993
280 kr
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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 local-level ideas about chance, personal character, …
Portrait of a Greek Imagination
An Ethnographic Biography of Andreas Nenedakis
Häftad, 1998
400 kr
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Anthropologist Michael Herzfeld first met Greek novelist Andreas Nenedakis in the drafty courtyard of a public library. This encounter led to an enduring intellectual relationship that prompted Herzfeld to reconsider both the contours of fiction and the nature of anthropology. Portrait of a Greek …
Evicted from Eternity
The Restructuring of Modern Rome
Inbunden, 2009
876 kr
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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 significant part on the world stage, but the concerns of its residents are often deeply parochial. And while they live in the seat of a world religion, Romans …
Evicted from Eternity – The Restructuring of Modern Rome
Häftad, 2009
332 kr
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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 significant part on the world stage, but the concerns of its residents are often deeply parochial. And while they live in the seat of a world religion, Romans …
Body Impolitic
Artisans and Artifice in the Global Hierarchy of Value
Häftad, 2003
305 kr
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"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.
Siege of the Spirits
Community and Polity in Bangkok
Häftad, 2016
280 kr
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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 anthropologist Michael Herzfeld shows in this book, the answer can be surprising. He tells the story of Pom Mahakan, a tiny enclave in the heart of old …
Social Production of Indifference
Exploring the Symbolic Roots of Western Bureaucracy
Häftad, 2021
634 kr
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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 Greece and utilizing other European materials, he …
Anthropology through the Looking-Glass
Critical Ethnography in the Margins of Europe
Häftad, 1989
357 kr
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Despite having emerged in the heyday of a dominant Europe, of which Ancient Greece is the hallowed spiritual and intellectual ancestor, anthropology has paradoxically shown relatively little interest in contemporary Greek culture. In this innovative and ambitious book, Michael Herzfeld moves Greek …
Anthropology
Theoretical Practice in Culture and Society
Häftad, 2000
682 kr
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Not a textbook in the ordinary sense, this work offers a vision of how anthropology - a discipline that operates through intimate knowledge of local societies - can offer vastly increased understanding of society and culture even in this age of mass communication. In its examination of topics …
Place in History
Social and Monumental Time in a Cretan Town
Häftad, 1991
1073 kr
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Michael Herzfeld 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 later inhabited by the Turks, he …
Poetics of Manhood
Contest and Identity in a Cretan Mountain Village
Häftad, 1988
477 kr
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The description for this book, The Poetics of Manhood: Contest and Identity in a Cretan Mountain Village, will be forthcoming.
Poetics of Manhood
Contest and Identity in a Cretan Mountain Village
E-bok, 2020
642 kr
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The description for this book, The Poetics of Manhood: Contest and Identity in a Cretan Mountain Village, will be forthcoming.
Life Among Urban Planners
Practice, Professionalism, and Expertise in the Making of the City
Av Jennifer Mack, Michael Herzfeld
Inbunden, 2020
964 kr
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A collection of ethnographic case studies of urban planners and their practicesUrban planners project the future of cities. As experts, they draft visions of places and times that do not yet exist, prescribing the tools to be used to achieve those visions. Their choices can determine how a city …
Life Among Urban Planners
Practice, Professionalism, and Expertise in the Making of the City
Av Jennifer Mack, Michael Herzfeld
E-bok, 2020
1132 kr
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A collection of ethnographic case studies of urban planners and their practicesUrban planners project the future of cities. As experts, they draft visions of places and times that do not yet exist, prescribing the tools to be used to achieve those visions. Their choices can determine how a city …
Social Production of Indifference
Exploring the Symbolic Roots of Western Bureaucracy
Inbunden, 1992
2145 kr
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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 Greece and utilizing other European materials, he …
Social Production of Indifference
Exploring the Symbolic Roots of Western Bureaucracy
E-bok, 2021
729 kr
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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 Greece and utilizing other European materials, …
Social Production of Indifference
Exploring the Symbolic Roots of Western Bureaucracy
E-bok, 2021
745 kr
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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 Greece and utilizing other European materials, …
Cultural Intimacy
Social Poetics and the Real Life of States, Societies, and Institutions
Inbunden, 2016
2525 kr
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In the third edition of this important and influential book, Michael Herzfeld revisits the idea of ‘cultural intimacy’. The chapters examine a range of topics touching on the relationship between state and citizen, and the notion of ‘national character’. Herzfeld provides a developed theoretical …
Cultural Intimacy
Social Poetics and the Real Life of States, Societies, and Institutions
Häftad, 2016
739 kr
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In the third edition of this important and influential book, Michael Herzfeld revisits the idea of ‘cultural intimacy’. The chapters examine a range of topics touching on the relationship between state and citizen, and the notion of ‘national character’. Herzfeld provides a developed theoretical …
Cultural Intimacy
Social Poetics and the Real Life of States, Societies, and Institutions
E-bok, 2016
779 kr
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In the third edition of this important and influential book, Michael Herzfeld revisits the idea of ‘cultural intimacy’. The chapters examine a range of topics touching on the relationship between state and citizen, and the notion of ‘national character’. Herzfeld provides a developed …
Cultural Intimacy
Social Poetics and the Real Life of States, Societies, and Institutions
E-bok, 2016
779 kr
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In the third edition of this important and influential book, Michael Herzfeld revisits the idea of ‘cultural intimacy’. The chapters examine a range of topics touching on the relationship between state and citizen, and the notion of ‘national character’. Herzfeld provides a developed …
Place in History
Social and Monumental Time in a Cretan Town
E-bok, 2020
768 kr
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Michael Herzfeld 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 later inhabited by the Turks, he …
Semiotics 1980
Av Margot D. Lenhart, Michael Herzfeld
E-bok, 2012
755 kr
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This volume contains the majority of the papers presented at the Fifth Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of America, held in Lubbock, Texas, October 16-19, 1980. The varied styles topics, methodologies, and intellectual traditions represented here reflect the current state of flux in …
Semiotics 1980
Av Michael Herzfeld, Margot D. Lenhart
Häftad, 2012
569 kr
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This volume contains the majority of the papers presented at the Fifth Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of America, held in Lubbock, Texas, October 16-19, 1980. The varied styles topics, methodologies, and intellectual traditions represented here reflect the current state of flux in …
Subversive Archaism
Troubling Traditionalists and the Politics of National Heritage
Inbunden, 2022
1161 kr
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In Subversive Archaism, Michael Herzfeld explores how individuals and communities living at the margins of the modern nation-state use nationalist discourses of tradition to challenge state authority under both democratic and authoritarian governments. Through close attention to the claims and …
Subversive Archaism
Troubling Traditionalists and the Politics of National Heritage
Häftad, 2022
288 kr
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In Subversive Archaism, Michael Herzfeld explores how individuals and communities living at the margins of the modern nation-state use nationalist discourses of tradition to challenge state authority under both democratic and authoritarian governments. Through close attention to the claims and …
Subversive Archaism
Troubling Traditionalists and the Politics of National Heritage
E-bok, 2021
440 kr
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In Subversive Archaism , Michael Herzfeld explores how individuals and communities living at the margins of the modern nation-state use nationalist discourses of tradition to challenge state authority under both democratic and authoritarian governments. Through close attention to the claims and …
Ours Once More
Folklore, Ideology, and the Making of Modern Greece
Häftad, 2020
527 kr
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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 the role of folklore in nation-building. It has since been highly influential in reshaping the analysis of Greek and European cultural dynamics. In this …
Ours Once More
Folklore, Ideology, and the Making of Modern Greece
E-bok, 2020
326 kr
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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 the role of folklore in nation-building. It has since been highly influential in reshaping the analysis of Greek and European cultural dynamics. In this …
