MGSA Survey of University Faculty and Administrators

Prof. Michael Herzfeld

Professor

Harvard University

Department of Anthropology

 

I. Degrees

D. Litt. 1989 University of Birmingham (Modern Greek)

D. Phil. 1976 University of Oxford (Social Anthropology)

Dip.Soc.Anth. 1973 University of Oxford

M.A. 1972 University of Birmingham

B.A.  1969 University of Oxford (Archaeology and Anthropology) (M.A. 1972)

 

II. Areas of Specialization

Social Anthropology

Semiotics

Historiography

 

III. Courses Taught in Modern Greek Studies

Cultures of Southern Europe

Ethnography of the Balkans

Ethnology of Greece

 

IV. Principal Publications (Greek words are given in transliteration)

Cultural Intimacy: Social Poetics in the Nation-State.  2nd, revised edition, 2005.  New York: Routledge.  (1st edition, New York, Routledge, 1997.)

 

The Body Impolitic: Artisans and Artifice in the Global Hierarchy of Value. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.

 

Portrait of a Greek Imagination: An Ethnographic Biography of Andreas Nenedakis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997.

 

The Social Production of Indifference: Exploring the Symbolic Roots of Western Bureaucracy. Oxford: Berg, 1992. (Paperback edition, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1993.)

 

A Place in History: Monumental and Social Time in a Cretan Town. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991.

 

Anthropology Through the Looking-Glass: Critical Ethnography in the Margins of Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

 

The Poetics of Manhood: Contest and Identity in a Cretan Mountain Village. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985.

 

Ours Once More: Folklore, Ideology, and the Making of Modern Greece. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1982. (Paperback edition by Pella, New York, 1986 is still in print).

V. Office Address

Harvard University

Department of Anthropology

William James Hall

33 Kirkland St.

Cambridge, MA 02138

 

Office Telephone (F)=Fax

(617) 496-5190

(617) 496-8355 (F)

 

Electronic Addresses

[email protected] email

 

http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~anthro/social_pages_herzfeld.html webpage

 

VI. Home Address

335 Harvard St., Apt. 2

Cambridge, MA 02139

 

Home Telephone (F)=Fax

(617) 868-7581

 

(801) 457 0717 (F)

VII. Comments and Additional Information

(no information submitted)

Last revised August 10, 2005

 

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