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Cultural intimacy : social poetics in the nation-state / Michael Herzfeld.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Routledge, 1997Description: xiii, 226 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0415917786 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.54 20 H.M.C.
Contents:
Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introducing Cultural Intimacy -- New Reflections on the Geopolitics of Cultural Intimacy -- Of Definitions and Boundaries -- Persuasive Resemblances -- The Dangers of Metaphor: From Troubled Waters to Boiling Blood -- Cultural Intimacy and the Meaning of Europe -- Structural Nostalgia: Time and the Oath in the Mountain Villages of Crete -- Social Poetics in Theory and Practice: Regular Guys and Irregular Practices -- The Practice of Stereotypes Afterword: Toward a Militant Middle Ground? Notes References Cited --Index.
Summary: Drawing on his own extensive fieldwork in Greece, as well as a wide range of international comparisons, the author reveals that every nation- state has its own 'dirty laundry'. He ranges from styles of bar-room to politics and national pride.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 186-212) and index.

Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introducing Cultural Intimacy -- New Reflections on the Geopolitics of Cultural Intimacy -- Of Definitions and Boundaries -- Persuasive Resemblances -- The Dangers of Metaphor: From Troubled Waters to Boiling Blood -- Cultural Intimacy and the Meaning of Europe -- Structural Nostalgia: Time and the Oath in the Mountain Villages of Crete -- Social Poetics in Theory and Practice: Regular Guys and Irregular Practices -- The Practice of Stereotypes Afterword: Toward a Militant Middle Ground? Notes References Cited --Index.

Drawing on his own extensive fieldwork in Greece, as well as a wide range of international comparisons, the author reveals that every nation- state has its own 'dirty laundry'. He ranges from styles of bar-room to politics and national pride.

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