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Subversive Archaism - Troubling Traditionalists and the Politics of National Heritage (Hardcover)
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Subversive Archaism - Troubling Traditionalists and the Politics of National Heritage (Hardcover)
Series: The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures
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In Subversive Archaism, Michael Herzfeld explores how individuals
and communities living at the margins of the modern nation-state
use nationalist discourses of tradition to challenge state
authority under both democratic and authoritarian governments.
Through close attention to the claims and experiences of mountain
shepherds in Greece and urban slum dwellers in Thailand, Herzfeld
shows how these subversive archaists draw on national histories and
past polities to claim legitimacy for their defiance of
bureaucratic authority. Although vilified by government authorities
as remote, primitive, or dangerous-often as preemptive
justification for violent repression-these groups are not
revolutionaries and do not reject national identity, but they do
question the equation of state and nation. Herzfeld explores the
political strengths and vulnerabilities of their deployment of
heritage and the weaknesses they expose in the bureaucratic and
ethnonational state in an era of accelerated globalization.
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