The body impolitic : artisans and artifice in the global hierarchy of value

Publication Data

• Title The body impolitic : artisans and artifice in the global hierarchy of value
• Alternative Title Artisans and artifice in the global hierarchy of value
• Author Michael Herzfeld
• Publisher University of Chicago Press
• Publication date 2003
• Publication location Chicago, Ill.
• Language English

Contents

The pedestal and the tethering post
Schooling the body
Hostility and cooperation
Engendered states
Boredom and stealth
Associative states
Artisans in the state and the nation
Embodying value.

Topics

• Handicraft industries :: Greece :: Crete
• Artisans :: Greece
• Social stratification :: Greece :: Crete
• Globalization :: Social aspects :: Greece :: Crete
• Professions :: Sociological aspects
• Crete (Greece) :: Social conditions
• Crete (Greece)

The body impolitic : artisans and artifice in the global hierarchy of value by Michael Herzfeld. ISBN 0226329143. Published by University of Chicago Press in 2003. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.