Cultural Intimacy
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Cultural Intimacy

Social Poetics and the Real Life of States, Societies, and Institutions

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eBook - ePub

Cultural Intimacy

Social Poetics and the Real Life of States, Societies, and Institutions

About this book

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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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2016
Print ISBN
9781138125759
eBook ISBN
9781317297543

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Cultural Intimacy
  3. Praise for the Third Edition
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. 1 Introducing Cultural Intimacy
  10. 2 The Geopolitics of Cultural Intimacy
  11. 3 Of Definitions and Boundaries
  12. 4 Persuasive Resemblances
  13. 5 The Dangers of Metaphor: From Troubled Waters to Boiling Blood
  14. 6 Cultural Intimacy and the Meaning of Europe
  15. 7 Structural Nostalgia: Time and the Oath in the Mountain Villages of Crete
  16. 8 Social Poetics in Theory and Practice: Regular Guys and Irregular Practices
  17. 9 The Practice of Stereotypes
  18. Afterword: Toward a Militant Middle Ground
  19. References
  20. Index