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1 online resource (ix, 231 pages .) |
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Routledge Classic Texts in Anthropology |
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Routledge classic texts in anthropology.
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Cultural intimacy- Front Cover; Cultural intimacy; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Introducing cultural intimacy; National embarrassments and the humor of the state; The provisionality of the permanent; Simulacra of sociality; Pervasive essentialisms; The coding of intimacy; Social poetics; Practical essentialism: creating resemblances; Organization of this book; Acknowledgments; Notes; Chapter 2: The geopolitics of cultural intimacy; Revisionist reflections; Shifting orientations; Complicating concepts; Intimacy, racism, and nationalism |
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Shifting levels and contrasting cases: the flexibility of cultural intimacyHistoricizing cultural intimacy; Culture against society; Familistic illusions and the illusion of family; The shadow of Europe; Acknowledgments; Notes; Chapter 3: Of definitions and boundaries; Morality and identity: the status of eternal verities; Further ethnographic illustrations from Greece; Meaning and the state: the status of definition; Notes; Chapter 4: Persuasive resemblances; Iconicity and the backgrounding of rhetoric; Etymology and recognition; Some illustrations |
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Defending cultural intimacy: iconicity, rhetoric, and cultural identityAcknowledgments; Notes; Chapter 5: The dangers of metaphor: from troubled waters to boiling blood; Of nations and metaphors; Images of existence: essentialism as metaphor; Note; Chapter 6: Cultural intimacy and the meaning of Europe; Essentialism and the Balkans; Notes; Chapter 7: Structural nostalgia: time and the oath in the mountain villages of Crete; Introduction: reciprocity as nostalgia and practice; Structural nostalgia in and against Church and state; Swearing innocence: supernatural sanctions |
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Distance lends enchantmentSupernatural sanctions and social relations; Reluctant accusers: risks of the oath; From the word of God to the word of honor; Oaths as social refractions of the word; Cynicism and the state; The ends of states and the state of words; Acknowledgments; Notes; Chapter 8: Social poetics in theory and practice: regular guys and irregular practices; Rhetoric and the constitution of social relations; Language-based models or language-derived models?; On the ordinary, the ornery, and the merely regular; Ethnographic comparisons; In search of embedded regularities |
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AcknowledgmentsNotes; Chapter 9: The practice of stereotypes; Stereotypes in action; Poetics and practice; A bureaucrat reminisces; Stereotypes and resistance; Stereotypes and the modern condition; Afterword: toward a militant middle ground; Note; References; Index |
| Summary |
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 framework and additional clarification of core concepts such as disemia, social poetics and structural nostalgia. The text has been fully updated in light of recent scholarship and events, including comment on Greece and the European Union. There is new material drawn from regions such as Thailand and China, and further consideration of religious intimacy and its impact on cities. The book improves our understanding of how states, societies and institutions function and illustrates the relevance of anthropology to contemporary issues such as globalization, censorship, ethnic conflict and nationalism |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Nation-state.
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Minorities.
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Group identity.
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Ethnicity.
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nations.
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group identity.
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ethnicity.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Ethnicity
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Group identity
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Minorities
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Nation-state
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317297550 |
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1317297555 |
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9781317297543 |
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1317297547 |
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