Herzfeld Michael Herzfeld

Subversive Archaism (eBook, PDF)

Troubling Traditionalists and the Politics of National Heritage

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Produktbeschreibung

In Subversive Archaism, Michael Herzfeld explores how individuals and communities living at the margins of the modern nation-state use nationalist discourses of tradition to challenge state authority under both democratic and authoritarian governments. Through close attention to the claims and experiences of mountain shepherds in Greece and urban slum dwellers in Thailand, Herzfeld shows how these subversive archaists draw on national histories and past polities to claim legitimacy for their defiance of bureaucratic authority. Although vilified by government authorities as remote, primitive, or dangerous-often as preemptive justification for violent repression-these groups are not revolutionaries and do not reject national identity, but they do question the equation of state and nation. Herzfeld explores the political strengths and vulnerabilities of their deployment of heritage and the weaknesses they expose in the bureaucratic and ethnonational state in an era of accelerated globalization.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 255
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781478022244
• Artikelnr.: 66282983

Autorenporträt

Michael Herzfeld is Ernest E. Monrad Professor of the Social Sciences, Emeritus, in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University. He is the author of numerous books, most recently Siege of the Spirits: Community and Polity in Bangkok and Evicted from Eternity: The Restructuring of Modern Rome.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgments  ix
Foreword / Robert J. Foster and Daniel R. Reichman  xiii
1. The Nation-State Outraged  1
2. National Legitimacy and the Illegitimacy of National Origins  27
3. Belonging and Remoteness  51
4. Cosmologies of the Social  69
5. A Plurality of Polities  97
6. Subversive Comparisons  121
7. Civility, Parody, and Invective  137
8. Does a Subversive Past Have a Viable Future?  157
Notes  171
References  205
Index  229