Cultural Intimacy: Social Poetics in the Nation-stateIn this new updated edition, Herzfeld includes more discussion about what cultural intimacy has come to mean for other authors and researchers, and how it can contribute to present studies of global processes and the forces that resist them. |
Contents
Introducing Cultural Intimacy | 1 |
New Reflections on the Geopolitics of Cultural Intimacy | 39 |
Of Definitions and Boundaries | 73 |
Persuasive Resemblances | 93 |
The Dangers of Metaphor From Troubled Waters to Boiling Blood | 111 |
Cultural Intimacy and the Meaning of Europe | 127 |
Structural Nostalgia Time and the Oath in the Mountain Villages of Crete | 147 |
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