The Body Impolitic
Artisans and Artifice in the Global Hierarchy of Value
The 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 identi…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-226-32914-7
- EAN: 9780226329147
- Produktnummer: 20653638
- Verlag: The University of Chicago Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
- Seitenangabe: 272 S.
- Masse: H22.8 cm x B15.3 cm x D2.0 cm 393 g
- Auflage: 2nd ed
- Abbildungen: 2 halftones, 3 line drawings, 1 table
- Gewicht: 393
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