Anthropology through the Looking-Glass
Critical Ethnography in the Margins of Europe
- Publisher's listprice GBP 26.00
-
13 158 Ft (12 532 Ft + 5% VAT)
The price is estimated because at the time of ordering we do not know what conversion rates will apply to HUF / product currency when the book arrives. In case HUF is weaker, the price increases slightly, in case HUF is stronger, the price goes lower slightly.
- Discount 20% (cc. 2 632 Ft off)
- Discounted price 10 527 Ft (10 026 Ft + 5% VAT)
Subcribe now and take benefit of a favourable price.
Subscribe
13 158 Ft
Availability
Estimated delivery time: In stock at the publisher, but not at Prospero's office. Delivery time approx. 3-5 weeks.
Not in stock at Prospero.
Why don't you give exact delivery time?
Delivery time is estimated on our previous experiences. We give estimations only, because we order from outside Hungary, and the delivery time mainly depends on how quickly the publisher supplies the book. Faster or slower deliveries both happen, but we do our best to supply as quickly as possible.
Product details:
- Edition number New ed
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 25 August 1989
- ISBN 9780521389082
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages276 pages
- Size 227x151x24 mm
- Weight 435 g
- Language English 0
Categories
Long description:
Despite having emerged in the heyday of a dominant Europe, of which Ancient Greece is the hallowed spiritual and intellectual ancestor, anthropology has paradoxically shown relatively little interest in contemporary Greek culture. In this innovative and ambitious book, Michael Herzfeld moves Greek Ethnography from the margins to the centre of anthropological theory, revealing the theoretical insights that can be gained by so doing. He shows that the ideology that originally led to the creation of anthropology also played a large part in the growth of the modern Greek nation-state, and that Greek ethnography can therefore serve as a mirror for an ethnography of anthropology itself. He further demonstrates the role that scholarly fields, including anthropology, have played in the construction of contemporary Greek culture and Greek identity.
'If the field of European ethnography has largely been ignored by the discipline of anthropology, which is still bent on living out of its fantasies of the erotic other, this work persuasively sets out the value of looking closer to home.' The Times Literary Supplement
Table of Contents:
1. Romanticism and Hellenism: burdens of otherness; 2. A secular cosmology; 3. Aboriginal Europeans; 4. Difference as identity; 5. The double-headed eagle: self-knowledge and self-display; 6. Strict definitions and bad habits; 7. The practice of relativity; 8. Etymologies of a discipline.
More
