01973fam a2200361 a 4500 1945067 BD-DhUL 20160417162021.0 960620s1997 nyu b 001 0 eng 96028864 0415917786 0415917794 (pbk.) (OCoLC)35025903 (OCoLC)ocm35025903 (NNC)1945067 DLC DLC NNC OrLoB-B BD-DhUL JC311 .H525 1996 320.54 20 HEC Herzfeld, Michael 1947- Cultural intimacy : social poetics in the nation-state / Michael Herzfeld. New York : Routledge, 1997. xiii, 226 p. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. In 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. Cultural 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. In all these arenas he finds revealing tensions between the formal idealization of collective self-recognition. Nation-state. Minorities. Group identity. Ethnicity. AUTH TOC ddc BK 56032 56032 0 0 ddc 0 320_540000000000000_HEC 0 NFIC 93706 DUL DUL GEN 1997-10-06 Purchased 320.54 HEC 364827 2016-04-17 2016-04-17 BK