Overview :Herzfeld argues that "modern" bureaucratically regulated societies are no more "rational" or less "symbolic" than the societies traditionall... Read More
Overview :Not a textbook in the ordinary sense, this work offers a vision of how anthropology - a discipline that operates through intimate knowledge ... Read More
Overview :Michael Herzfeld describes what happens when a bureaucracy charged with historic conservation clashes with a local populace hostile to the s... Read More
Overview :Modern Rome is a city rife with contradictions. Once the seat of ancient glory, it is now often the object of national contempt. It plays a ... Read More
Overview :In Subversive Archaism, Michael Herzfeld explores how individuals and communities living at the margins of the modern nation-state use natio... Read More
Overview :In this fascinating book, Michael Herzfeld argues that 'modern' bureaucratically regulated societies are no more 'rational' or less 'symboli... Read More
Overview :Using Greek ethnography as a mirror for an ethnography of anthropology itself, this book reveals the ways in which the discipline of anthrop... Read More
Overview : When this work - one that contributes to both the history and anthropology fields - first appeared in 1982, it was hailed as a landmark stu... Read More