Herzfeld Subversive Archaism

Troubling Traditionalists and the Politics of National Heritage
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2224-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 255 Seiten

Reihe: The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures

Michael Herzfeld documents how marginalized groups use official discourses of national tradition against the authority of the bureaucratic nation-state state and violent repercussions that can often follow.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Herzfeld, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface and Acknowledgments ix
Foreword / Robert J. Foster and Daniel R. Reichman xiii
1. The Nation-State Outraged 1
2. National Legitimacy and the Illegitimacy of National Origins 27
3. Belonging and Remoteness 51
4. Cosmologies of the Social 69
5. A Plurality of Polities 97
6. Subversive Comparisons 121
7. Civility, Parody, and Invective 137
8. Does a Subversive Past Have a Viable Future? 157
Notes 171
References 205
Index 229

Über Autor(innen)

Michael Herzfeld is Ernest E. Monrad Professor of the Social Sciences, Emeritus, in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University. He is the author of numerous books, most recently Siege of the Spirits: Community and Polity in Bangkok and Evicted from Eternity: The Restructuring of Modern Rome.