[lit-ideas] Herzfeld on the Disreputable
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 19:51:56 EDT
In a message dated 9/9/2004 1:01:12 AM Eastern Standard Time,
mccreery@xxxxxxx writes:
FYI, there is a moderately interesting book on this subject, _Cultural
Intimacy_, by Harvard anthropologist Michael Herzfeld.
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Thanks for the ref. -- I append below the blurb from amazon.com. Herzfeld
apparently plays with the idea of 'structural nostalgia'. He also talks of the
rhetoric of 'self-presentation' and the 'embarrassment of self-knowledge.' --
No customer reviews, alas.
Cheers,
JL
By comparing the twin notions of "cultural intimacy" and "structural
nostalgia," Michael Herzfeld explores how the "disreputable" plays a role in
creating a sense of solidarity. "Structural nostalgia," as defined by
Herzfeld, is
the means through which people use images of lost perfection to try to resolve
the tension between the rhetoric of self-presentation, and the embarrassment
of self-knowledge. Herzfeld argues that people rely on stretching the
metaphors of body, family and local group to the point where they no longer
represent lived experience but where they nevertheless provide the basis for
collective identity."
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