01894fam a2200325 a 45000010008000000030008000080050017000160080041000330100017000740200015000910200022001060350020001280350023001480350017001710400036001880500022002240820020002461000029002662450081002952600034003763000027004105040051004375200466004885200429009545200116013836500018014996500016015176500020015336500015015531945067BD-DhUL20160417162021.0960620s1997    nyu      b    001 0 eng    a   96028864   a0415917786  a0415917794 (pbk.)  a(OCoLC)35025903  a(OCoLC)ocm35025903  a(NNC)1945067  aDLCcDLCdNNCdOrLoB-BdBD-DhUL00aJC311b.H525 199600a320.54220bHEC1 aHerzfeld, Michaeld1947-10aCultural intimacy :bsocial poetics in the nation-state /cMichael Herzfeld.  aNew York :bRoutledge,c1997.  axiii, 226 p. ;c24 cm.  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.  aIn Cultural Intimacy, anthropologist Michael Herzfeld asks why officials treat certain features of national culture as disreputable, and why at the same time it is these features through which the nation-state often secures the loyalty of its citizens. To probe this "cultural intimacy" he develops an approach, which he calls "social poetics" that opens up the tensions between official models of national culture and the lived experience of ordinary citizens.8 aCultural Intimacy draws on the author's own extensive fieldwork in Greece, as well as on a wide range of comparisons from the United States, Africa, Western Europe, and elsewhere. Herzfeld explores many topics - from sheep-thieves to flight attendants, from the banality of polite chit-chat to the divine vengeance invoked against perjury, and from the personal styles of coffeehouse and barroom to the politics of academia.8 aIn all these arenas he finds revealing tensions between the formal idealization of collective self-recognition. 0aNation-state. 0aMinorities. 0aGroup identity. 0aEthnicity.