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The Body Impolitic - by Michael Herzfeld (Paperback)

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  • About the Author: Michael Herzfeld is a professor of anthropology at Harvard University.
  • 269 Pages
  • Business + Money Management, Careers

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The Body Impolitic is a critical study of tradition, not merely as an ornament of local and national heritage, but also as a millstone around the necks of those who are condemned to produce it.

Michael Herzfeld takes us inside a rich variety of small-town Cretan artisans' workshops to show how apprentices are systematically thwarted into learning by stealth and guile. This harsh training reinforces a stereotype of artisans as rude and uncultured. Moreover, the same stereotypes that marginalize artisans locally also operate to marginalize Cretans within the Greek nation and Greece itself within the international community. What Herzfeld identifies as "the global hierarchy of value" thus frames the nation's ancient monuments and traditional handicrafts as evidence of incurable "backwardness."

Herzfeld's sensitive observations offer an intimately grounded way of understanding the effects of globalization and of one of its most visible offshoots, the heritage industry, on the lives of ordinary people in many parts of the world today.



About the Author



Michael Herzfeld is a professor of anthropology at Harvard University. He is the author, most recently, of Portrait of a Greek Imagination: An Ethnographic Biography of Andreas Nenedakis, published by the University of Chicago Press, and Anthropology: Theoretical Practice in Society and Culture.
Dimensions (Overall): 8.56 Inches (H) x 6.72 Inches (W) x .66 Inches (D)
Weight: .86 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 269
Genre: Business + Money Management
Sub-Genre: Careers
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Theme: Job Hunting
Format: Paperback
Author: Michael Herzfeld
Language: English
Street Date: December 15, 2003
TCIN: 1006090691
UPC: 9780226329147
Item Number (DPCI): 247-18-4915
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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