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  • Siege of the Spirits

    Community and Polity in Bangkok

    de Michael Herzfeld ...
    What happens when three hundred alleged squatters go head-to-head with an enormous city government looking to develop the place where they live? As anthropologist Michael Herzfeld shows in this book, the answer can be surprising. He tells the story of Pom Mahakan, a tiny enclave in the heart of old Bangkok whose residents have resisted authorities' demands to vacate their homes for a quarter of a ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • A Place in History

    Social and Monumental Time in a Cretan Town

    de Michael Herzfeld ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History
    Michael Herzfeld describes what happens when a bureaucracy charged with historic conservation clashes with a local populace hostile to the state and suspicious of tourism. Focusing on the Cretan town of Rethemnos, once a center of learning under Venetian rule and later inhabited by the Turks, he examines major questions confronting conservators and citizens as they negotiate the "ownership" of ... Leer más

    $47.59 USD

  • The Poetics of Manhood

    Contest and Identity in a Cretan Mountain Village

    de Michael Herzfeld ...
    The description for this book, The Poetics of Manhood: Contest and Identity in a Cretan Mountain Village, will be forthcoming. ... Leer más

    $39.59 USD

  • Subversive Archaism

    Troubling Traditionalists and the Politics of National Heritage

    de Michael Herzfeld ...
    Series series The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures
    In Subversive Archaism, Michael Herzfeld explores how individuals and communities living at the margins of the modern nation-state use nationalist discourses of tradition to challenge state authority under both democratic and authoritarian governments. Through close attention to the claims and experiences of mountain shepherds in Greece and urban slum dwellers in Thailand, Herzfeld shows how these ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • Life Among Urban Planners

    Practice, Professionalism, and Expertise in the Making of the City

    Edición de Jennifer Mack, Michael Herzfeld ...
    Series series The City in the Twenty-First Century
    A collection of ethnographic case studies of urban planners and their practicesUrban planners project the future of cities. As experts, they draft visions of places and times that do not yet exist, prescribing the tools to be used to achieve those visions. Their choices can determine how a city will merge its public transit and automobile traffic or how it will meet a demand for thousands of new ... Leer más

    $76.99 USD

  • Norms and Illegality

    Intimate Ethnographies and Politics

    de Cristiana Panella, Isabella Clough Marinaro, Andrew Walsh, Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld, Lorelei C. Mendoza, B. Lynne Milgram, Florence E. Babb, Michael Herzfeld, Walter E. Little, Gordon Mathews1, Alan Smart2 ...
    Norms and Illegality: Intimate Ethnographies and Politics explores liminal and illegal practices in relation to political control and cultural normativity. The contributors draw on years of ethnographic experiences in Greece, Guatemala, Hong Kong, Italy, Madagascar, Mali, Philippines, and Thailand to study the contradictions of what is legal and illegal. They explore the production of illegal ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • Life Among Urban Planners

    Practice, Professionalism, and Expertise in the Making of the City

    Edición de Jennifer Mack, Michael Herzfeld ...
    Series series The City in the Twenty-First Century
    A collection of ethnographic case studies of urban planners and their practicesUrban planners project the future of cities. As experts, they draft visions of places and times that do not yet exist, prescribing the tools to be used to achieve those visions. Their choices can determine how a city will merge its public transit and automobile traffic or how it will meet a demand for thousands of new ... Leer más

    $61.99 USD

  • Sfrattati dall’eternità

    La ristrutturazione neoliberista a Roma

    de Michael Herzfeld ...
    Il Duemila, l’anno del Giubileo, risultò catastrofico per la popolazione del rione Monti, nel centro storico di Roma. Artigiani, bottegai, lavoratori, vittime della speculazione edilizia, dell’usura, della corruzione e delle pignolerie burocratiche, sfruttati da politici di ogni stampo, furono costretti ad abbandonare gli spazi del loro adorato vicinato e a cederli a persone benestanti e alle ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

  • The Social Production of Indifference

    Exploring the Symbolic Roots of Western Bureaucracy

    de Michael Herzfeld ...
    Series series Global Issues
    In this fascinating book, Michael Herzfeld argues that 'modern' bureaucratically regulated societies are no more 'rational' or less 'symbolic' than the societies traditionally studied by anthropologists. Drawing primarily on the example of modern Greece and utilizing other European materials, he suggests that we cannot understand national bureaucracies divorced from local-level ideas about chance, ... Leer más

    $55.99 USD

  • Ours Once More

    Folklore, Ideology, and the Making of Modern Greece

    de Michael Herzfeld ...
    When this work – one that contributes to both the history and anthropology fields – first appeared in 1982, it was hailed as a landmark study of the role of folklore in nation-building. It has since been highly influential in reshaping the analysis of Greek and European cultural dynamics. In this expanded edition, a new introduction by the author and an epilogue by Sharon Macdonald document its ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • Semiotics 1980

    de Michael Herzfeld, Margot D. Lenhart ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This volume contains the majority of the papers presented at the Fifth Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of America, held in Lubbock, Texas, October 16-19, 1980. The varied styles topics, methodologies, and intellectual traditions represented here reflect the current state of flux in semiotics--a healthy chaos, in which new ideas vie for survival and experiment is at a premium. Because of ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Cultural Intimacy

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

    de Michael Herzfeld ...
    Series series Routledge Classic Texts in Anthropology
    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 ... Leer más

    $66.99 USD