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Michael Herzfeld
Other affiliations: Indiana University, Vassar College
Bio: Michael Herzfeld is an academic researcher from Harvard University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Ideology & Ethnography. The author has an hindex of 36, co-authored 171 publications receiving 8058 citations. Previous affiliations of Michael Herzfeld include Indiana University & Vassar College.
Topics: Ideology, Ethnography, Identity (social science), Folklore, Rhetoric
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01 Jan 1996
TL;DR: In this article, Herzfeld includes more discussion about what cultural intimacy has come to mean for other authors and researchers, and how it can contribute to present studies of global processes and the forces that resist them.
Abstract: In this new updated edition, Herzfeld includes more discussion about what cultural intimacy has come to mean for other authors and researchers, and how it can contribute to present studies of global processes and the forces that resist them.
1,154 citations
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01 Jan 1992
TL;DR: Herzfeld argues that modern bureaucratically regulated societies are no more rational or less "symbolic" than the societies traditionally studied by anthropologists and suggests that we cannot understand national bureaucracies divorced from local-level ideas about chance, personal character, social relationships and responsibility.
Abstract: Herzfeld argues that "modern" bureaucratically regulated societies are no more "rational" or less "symbolic" than the societies traditionally studied by anthropologists. He suggests that we cannot understand national bureaucracies divorced from local-level ideas about chance, personal character, social relationships and responsibility. "Herzfeld's book is extremely ambitious and will be of interest to any anthropologist concerned with the study of bureaucracy, organizational and institutional control, symbols and their power, and social conflict...Thoughtful and challenging."--Helen B. Schwartzman, American Ethnologist
720 citations
TL;DR: The Poetics of Manhood: Contest and Identity in a Cretan Mountain Village as discussed by the authors is a book about the contest and identity of men in a mountain village in Greece.
Abstract: The description for this book, The Poetics of Manhood: Contest and Identity in a Cretan Mountain Village, will be forthcoming.
608 citations
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01 Jan 1987
TL;DR: The double-headed eagle: self-knowledge and self-display as mentioned in this paper is a symbol of the double-head eagle and the practice of relativity in a discipline and a belief system.
Abstract: 1. Romanticism and Hellenism: burdens of otherness 2. A secular cosmology 3. Aboriginal Europeans 4. Difference as identity 5. The double-headed eagle: self-knowledge and self-display 6. Strict definitions and bad habits 7. The practice of relativity 8. Etymologies of a discipline.
499 citations
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TL;DR: In this paper, Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism are discussed. And the history of European ideas: Vol. 21, No. 5, pp. 721-722.
13,842 citations
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TL;DR: In recent years, the concept of boundaries has been at the center of influential research agendas in anthropology, history, political science, social psychology, and sociology, particularly concerning the study of relational processes as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: In recent years, the concept of boundaries has been at the center of influential research agendas in anthropology, history, political science, social psychology, and sociology. This article surveys some of these developments while describing the value added provided by the concept, particularly concerning the study of relational processes. It discusses literatures on (a) social and collective identity; (b) class, ethnic/racial, and gender/sex inequality; (c) professions, knowledge, and science; and (d) communities, national identities, and spatial boundaries. It points to similar processes at work across a range of institutions and social locations. It also suggests paths for further developments, focusing on the relationship between social and symbolic boundaries, cultural mechanisms for the production of boundaries, difference and hybridity, and cultural membership and group classifications.
3,190 citations
01 Jan 2016
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01 Jan 1983
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a typology of nationalisms in industrial and agro-literature societies, and a discussion of the difficulties of true nationalism in industrial societies.
Abstract: Series Editor's Preface. Introduction by John Breuilly. Acknowledgements. 1. Definitions. State and nation. The nation. 2. Culture in Agrarian Society. Power and culture in the agro-literature society. The varieties of agrarian rulers. 3. Industrial Society. The society of perpetual growth. Social genetics. The age of universal high culture. 4. The Transition to an Age of Nationalism. A note on the weakness of nationalism. Wild and garden culture. 5. What is a Nation. The course of true nationalism never did run smooth. 6. Social Entropy and Equality in Industrial Society. Obstacles to entropy. Fissures and barriers. A diversity of focus. 7. A Typology of Nationalisms. The varieties of nationalist experience. Diaspora nationalism. 8. The Future of Nationalism. Industrial culture - one or many?. 9. Nationalism and Ideology. Who is for Nuremberg?. One nation, one state. 10. Conclusion. What is not being said. Summary. Select bibliography. Bilbliography of Ernest Gellner's writing: Ian Jarvie. Index
2,912 citations