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Body Impolitic : Artisans and Artifice in the Global Hierarchy of Value by Michael Herzfeld (2003, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
ISBN-100226329143
ISBN-139780226329147
eBay Product ID (ePID)2847024
Product Key Features
Number of Pages272 Pages
Publication NameBody Impolitic : Artisans and Artifice in the Global Hierarchy of Value
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2003
SubjectCareers / General, Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Sociology / General, Globalization, Folk & Outsider Art, Anthropology / General
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaArt, Political Science, Social Science, Business & Economics
AuthorMichael Herzfeld
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight14.3 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2003-009663
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition21
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal331.7/94
Table Of ContentAcknowledgments Note on Transliteration 1. The Pedestal and the Tethering Post 2. Schooling the Body 3. Hostility and Cooperation 4. Engendered States 5. Boredom and Stealth 6. Associative States 7. Artisans in the State and the Nation 8. Embodying Value Notes Bibliography Index
SynopsisThe 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.
LC Classification NumberHD9999.H363C744 2004
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