Anthropology Through the Looking-Glass : Critical Ethnography in the Margins of Europe
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0521389089
ISBN-13
9780521389082
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 25th, 1989
Print length
276 Pages
Weight
412 grams
Dimensions
15.00 x 22.90 x 2.10 cms
Product Classification:
AnthropologyPhysical anthropology
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Anthropology has shown relatively little interest in contemporary Greek culture. However, this book places Greek ethnography in the centre of anthropological theory. The author offers an insight that is based on empirical ethnography rather than on ideological speculation alone.
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.
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