Herzfeld, Michael (F.)

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HERZFELD, Michael (F.)

HERZFELD, Michael (F.). American, b. 1947. Genres: Anthropology/Ethnology. Career: Social anthropologist and educator. Has taught at Indiana University; Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, professor of anthropology, 1991-. Harvard University Greek Study Group, co-chair. Publications: Ours Once More: Folklore, Ideology, and the Making of Modern Greece, 1982; The Poetics of Manhood: Contest and Identity in a Cretan Mountain Village, 1985; Anthropology through the Looking-Glass: Critical Ethnography in the Margins of Europe, 1987; A Place in History: Social and Monumental Time in a Cretan Town, 1991; The Social Production of Indifference: Exploring the Symbolic Roots of Western Bureaucracy, 1992; Cultural Intimacy: Social Poetics in the Nation-State, 1997; Portrait of a Greek Imagination: An Ethnographic Biography of Andreas Nenedakis, 1997. EDITOR: (with P. Bouissac and R. Posner) Iconicity: Essays on the Nature of Culture: Festschrift for Thomas A. Sebeokon, 1986; (with L. Melazzo) Semiotic Theory and Practice: Proceedings of the Third International Congress of the IASS, 1984; Mouton de Gruyter 1988; Property, Production, and Family in Neckarhausen, 1700-1870, 1994. Contributor to journals. Address: Harvard University, Department of Anthropology, William James Hall Rm. 380, 33 Kirkland St., Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A. Online address: [email protected]

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