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Author Herzfeld, Michael, 1947-

Title Anthropology through the looking-glass : critical ethnography in the margins of Europe / Michael Herzfeld
Published Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1987

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Description xii, 260 pages ; 24 cm
regular print
Contents Machine derived contents note: 1. Romanticism and Hellenism: burdens of otherness -- 2. A secular cosmology -- 3. Aboriginal Europeans -- 4. Difference as identity -- 5. The double-headed eagle: self-knowledge and self-display -- 6. Strict definitions and bad habits -- 7. The practice of relativity -- 8. Etymologies of a discipline
Summary 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 comparative goals of anthropology beyond the traditional separation of tribal object from detached scientific observer, and offers the discipline a critical source of reflexive insight based on empirical ethnography rather than on ideological speculation alone. [publisher]
Analysis Greece Cultural processes
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 223-244
Subject Anthropology -- Philosophy.
Anthropology.
Ethnology -- Europe.
Ethnology -- Greece.
Anthropology.
Philosophy.
Ethnology.
SUBJECT Greece -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057131
LC no. 87009341
ISBN 0521340039
0521389089 (paperback)