Michael Herzfeld

Avoidances and transgressions: agency, religiosity, and moralism in food and politics

Michael Herzfeld

Journal article  |  2021  |  FOOD CULTURE & SOCIETY

Food avoidance is a negotiated and changeable compromise among religious prescriptions, social pressures, and personal predilectio..

The social production of indifference: Exploring the symbolic roots of Western bureaucracy

M Herzfeld

Book  |  2021

In this fascinating book, Michael Herzfeld argues that 'modern' bureaucratically regulated societies are no more 'rational' or les..

The taming of revolution: Intense paradoxes of the self

M Herzfeld

Book Chapter  |  2021

The nation-state is often situated on the cusps of a dilemma that is directly related to the tension between selfhood and authorit..

SEDUCTIONS OF THE BOUZOUKI AND THE BRASS BAND: TRANSGRESSIVE REFLECTIONS ON MIKIS THEODORAKIS AND GIUSEPPE VERDI

Michael Herzfeld

Journal article  |  2020  |  ANNUAL OF THE BRITISH SCHOOL AT ATHENS

It may transgress convention to compare Mikis Theodorakis, better known for his songs than for his operatic work, with the Italian..

Lockdown Reflections on Freedom and Cultural Intimacy

Michael Herzfeld

Journal article  |  2020  |  ANTHROPOLOGY IN ACTION-JOURNAL FOR APPLIED ANTHROPOLOGY IN POLICY AND PRACTICE

In this article I address the role now being played by libertarian attacks on the enforcement of health regulations such as the we..

Uncanny success: Some closing remarks

M Herzfeld

Book Chapter  |  2020

The absent presence: Discourses of crypto-colonialism

M Herzfeld

Book Chapter  |  2020

Seeing Like a Village: Contesting Hegemonic Modernity in Greece

Michael Herzfeld

Journal article  |  2020  |  JOURNAL OF MODERN GREEK STUDIES

The village is a topos in the conventional, evolutionary account of modern Greek national emergence. Using the example of an eccen..

Transformations of cultural intimacy: An afterword

Michael Herzfeld

Journal article  |  2020  |  CULTURAL DYNAMICS

This Afterword provides an opportunity to consider the contribution of the assembled articles to our understanding of the expansio..

Transacting Knowledge and Value: Fredrik Barth and the Tactics of Mutual Incomprehension

Michael Herzfeld

Book Chapter  |  2020