Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-268) and index.
Contents:
Introducing cultural intimacy -- New reflections on the geopolitics of cultural intimacy -- Of definitions and boundaries -- Persuasive resemblances -- The dangers of metaphor : from troubled waters to boiling blood -- Cultural intimacy and the meaning of Europe -- Structural nostalgia : time and the oath in the mountain villages of Crete -- Social poetics in theory and practice : regular guys and irregular practices -- The practice of stereotypes -- Afterword : toward a militant middle ground?
Summary:
"In this new revised edition, Herzfeld expands his discussion of what cultural intimacy has come to mean, and explores how it can contribute to present studies of global processes and the forces that resist them."--BOOK JACKET.
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