Michael Herzfeld

Author of The Poetics of Manhood: Contest and Identity in a Cretan Mountain Village

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The Poetics of Manhood: Contest and Identity in a Cretan Mountain Village 15 copies
The Social Production of Indifference 13 copies
Anthropology: Theoretical Practice in Culture and Society 10 copies
Cultural Intimacy: Social Poetics in the Nation-State 9 copies
A Place in History 9 copies, 1 review
Anthropology through the Looking-Glass: Critical Ethnography in the… 8 copies
Portrait of a Greek Imagination: An Ethnographic Biography of Andreas… 6 copies
Ours Once More: Folklore, Ideology, and the making of Modern Greece 6 copies, 1 review
The Body Impolitic: Artisans and Artifice in the Global Hierarchy of Value 4 copies
Intimita culturale: antropologia e nazionalismo 1 copy
Antropologia: pratica della teoria nella cultura e nella societa 1 copy

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1947-08-03

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London, England, UK

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Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Education

Cambridge University (BA ∙ 1969)

University of Birmingham (MA ∙ Modern Greek ∙ 1972 ∙ DLitt ∙ 1989)

Oxford University (DPhil ∙ Social Anthropology ∙ 1976)

Occupations

Professor of Anthropology

Curator of European Ethnology

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Vassar College (1978-80)

Indiana University (1980-91)

Harvard University

Peabody Museum of Natural History

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Married to Cornelia Herzfeld.

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Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History

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Co-winner of the 1981-1982 Chicago Folklore Prize

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