Anthropology Through the Looking-Glass: Critical Ethnography in the Margins of Europe

by Michael Herzfeld

Book Overview

Despite having emerged in the heyday of a dominant Europe, of which Ancient Greece is the hallowed spiritual and intellectual ancestor, anthropology has paradoxically shown relatively little interest in contemporary Greek culture. In this innovative and ambitious book, Michael Herzfeld moves Greek Ethnography from the margins to the centre of anthropological theory, revealing the theoretical insights that can be gained by so doing. He shows that the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521389089
• ISBN13: 9780521389082
• Release Date: August 1989
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.0"