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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Univ of Chicago Pr
Publication date
December 15, 2003
Pages
256
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780226329147
ISBN-10
0226329143
Dimensions
0.50 by 6.25 by 9 in.
Weight
0.85 lbs.
Original list price
$31.00
Other format details
university press
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The Body Impolitic is a critical study of tradition, not merely as an ornament of local and national heritage, but also as a millstone around the necks of those who are condemned to produce it.
Michael Herzfeld takes us inside a rich variety of small-town Cretan artisans' workshops to show how apprentices are systematically thwarted into learning by stealth and guile. This harsh training reinforces a stereotype of artisans as rude and uncultured. Moreover, the same stereotypes that marginalize artisans locally also operate to marginalize Cretans within the Greek nation and Greece itself within the international community. What Herzfeld identifies as "the global hierarchy of value" thus frames the nation's ancient monuments and traditional handicrafts as evidence of incurable "backwardness."
Herzfeld's sensitive observations offer an intimately grounded way of understanding the effects of globalization and of one of its most visible offshoots, the heritage industry, on the lives of ordinary people in many parts of the world today.
Michael Herzfeld takes us inside a rich variety of small-town Cretan artisans' workshops to show how apprentices are systematically thwarted into learning by stealth and guile. This harsh training reinforces a stereotype of artisans as rude and uncultured. Moreover, the same stereotypes that marginalize artisans locally also operate to marginalize Cretans within the Greek nation and Greece itself within the international community. What Herzfeld identifies as "the global hierarchy of value" thus frames the nation's ancient monuments and traditional handicrafts as evidence of incurable "backwardness."
Herzfeld's sensitive observations offer an intimately grounded way of understanding the effects of globalization and of one of its most visible offshoots, the heritage industry, on the lives of ordinary people in many parts of the world today.
Editions
Hardcover
from Univ of Chicago Pr (December 15, 2003)
9780226329130 | details & prices | 256 pages | 6.50 × 9.25 × 0.75 in. | 1.15 lbs | List price $81.00
Paperback
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from Univ of Chicago Pr (December 15, 2003)
9780226329147 | details & prices | 256 pages | 6.25 × 9.00 × 0.50 in. | 0.85 lbs | List price $31.00
About: The Body Impolitic is a critical study of tradition, not merely as an ornament of local and national heritage, but also as a millstone around the necks of those who are condemned to produce it.
About: The Body Impolitic is a critical study of tradition, not merely as an ornament of local and national heritage, but also as a millstone around the necks of those who are condemned to produce it.
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