Format:
1 Online-Ressource ( ix, 231Seiten)
Edition:
Third edition
ISBN:
9781317297550
Series Statement:
Routledge classic texts in anthropology
Content:
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
Content:
Complicating concepts -- Intimacy, racism, and nationalism -- Shifting levels and contrasting cases: the flexibility of cultural intimacy -- Historicizing 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
Content:
Etymology and recognition -- Some illustrations -- Defending cultural intimacy: iconicity, rhetoric, and cultural identity -- Acknowledgments -- 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
Content:
Structural nostalgia in and against Church and state -- Swearing innocence: supernatural sanctions -- Distance lends enchantment -- Supernatural 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?
Content:
On the ordinary, the ornery, and the merely regular -- Ethnographic comparisons -- In search of embedded regularities -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- 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
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781138125742
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781138125759
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Herzfeld, Michael Cultural Intimacy : Social Poetics and the Real Life of States, Societies, and Institutions : Taylor and Francis,c2016
Language:
English
Keywords:
Nationalismus
;
Gruppenidentität
;
Minderheit
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