Browsing by Author "Herzfeld, Michael"
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Creating a Season: Tourism, Sexuality, and Imaginations of Beirut
McCormick, Jared S. (2016-09-21)This dissertation is an ethnographic and historical investigation into questions of sexuality, sensuality, mobility, and tourism in the context of Beirut, Lebanon. The work explores affective atmospheres and the conditions ... -
The Crypto-Colonial Dilemmas of Rattanakosin Island
Herzfeld, Michael F (The Siam Society, 2012) -
The cultural politics of gesture
Herzfeld, Michael F (SAGE Publications, 2009)Ethnographers enter the field as legible signs of otherness to their interlocutors. In this article, I explore the ramifications of my personal experience of being variously `read' in the course of encounters in Bangkok, ... -
Discourse, Morality, Body: Radical Socialism in a Chinese Model Village(1946-1978)
Chang, Shu (2013-10-14)This dissertation is based on my long-term fieldwork at Dazhai village in Shanxi Province, north China. Dazhai village was a famous national model of socialist agriculture and rural settlement during the Maoist era. ... -
Engagement, Gentrification, and the Neoliberal Hijacking of History
Herzfeld, Michael F (University of Chicago Press, 2010)Drawing primarily on fieldwork in Greece, Italy, and Thailand, I examine the use of historic conservation to justify gentrification. This commoditization of history expands into urban design a classification that serves ... -
Ethnography Without Tears
Roth, Paul; Buchowski, Michal; Clifford, James; Herzfeld, Michael F; Sangren, P.; Sapire, David; Strathern, Marilyn; Tyler, Stephen (1989) -
For a Poetics of Social Life
Herzfeld, Michael (1987)One of the burning issues in modern anthropology concerns the relationship between the individual and the larger society. Is society a kind of metallic grid that we all have to move through in lockstep? How many of us feel ... -
Forging Steel: Schools, Success, and the Making of Persons in a Chinese County Seat
Zhang, Min (2014-02-25)This dissertation addresses the question of how teenagers are educated for success in Chinese schools. Drawing upon 16 months of fieldwork in a county-level town located in northwest China (Shaanxi Province), this study ... -
Intangible Delicacies
Herzfeld, Michael F (Consortium Erudit, 2014) -
Is Poverty in Our Genes?
d’Alpoim Guedes, Jade; Bestor, Theodore C; Carrasco, David L.; Flad, Rowan K.; Fosse, Ethan A; Herzfeld, Michael F; Lamberg-Karlovsky, Carl C.; Lewis, Cecil M.; Liebmann, Matthew Joseph; Meadow, Richard Henry; Patterson, Nick; Price, Max Daniel; Reiches, Meredith Wayden; Richardson, Sarah S; Shattuck-Heidorn, Heather; Ur, Jason Alik; Urton, Gary; Warinner, Christina (University of Chicago Press, 2013)We present a critique of a paper written by two economists, Quamrul Ashraf and Oded Galor, which is forthcoming in the American Economic Review and which was uncritically highlighted in Science magazine. Their paper claims ... -
Locating Shanghai: Globalization, Heritage Industry, and the Political Economy of Urban Space in a Chinese Metropolis
Arkaraprasertkul, Non (2016-05-18)Given the rapid urbanization of Shanghai in the past three decades, how might we attempt to understand the changing meanings, usages, and values of urban space and the built environment, as occupied, lived, and experienced ... -
Mobile Bodies: Migration, Performance and Social Belonging in Malian Dance
Kivenko, Sharon Freda (2016-01-27)Mobile Bodies is a dance ethnography about the interface of arts performance, sociality and labor migration. Based on intensive apprenticeship in Mande Dance undertaken in Bamako, Mali this dissertation considers the ... -
The Owners of the Map: motorcycle taxi drivers, mobility, and politics in Bangkok
Sopranzetti, Claudio (2013-10-14)This dissertation offers an ethnography of motorcycle taxi drivers: Bangkok's most important and informal network of everyday mobility. Drawing on over eight years of experience in the region, six months of archival research, ... -
The performance of secrecy: Domesticity and privacy in public spaces
Herzfeld, Michael F (Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2009)Secrecy, paradoxically, is a social fact; as such, it must be performed in order to be realized. This article is a programmatic attempt to explore the semiotics of secrecy as revealed through the interaction of architectonics, ... -
Producing the Public: Architecture, Urban Planning, and Immigration in a Swedish Town, 1965 to the Present
Mack, Jennifer Shannon (2013-02-26)European modernist architectural design and urban planning for suburbs have often been theorized as dystopic creation myths. These narratives focus on the unfulfilled promises of activist designers to deliver equality, ... -
Public Culture and Cultural Citizenship at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival
Lee, Toby Kim (2013-10-18)This dissertation explores the relationship between state, citizen and public culture through an ethnographic and historical examination of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival in northern Greece. In the two-year ... -
Rediscovering the House and Body: Theatre and Performance Life in Hong Kong in the 1990s
Kao, Stella (2013-02-15)What the future brings for Hong Kong and its residents had been urgently debated in local and global conversations during the period leading to the 'handover,' or, Hong Kong’s 'return' to China in 1997. My dissertation ... -
Scaffolding Sentiment: Money, Labor, and Love in India’s Real Estate and Construction Industry
Dharia, Namita Vijay (2015-05-20)This dissertation is an ethnography of the building and real estate construction industry in India’s National Capital Region (NCR). It is a cross-class study based on fifteen months of ethnographic research in NCR with ... -
Silver Bosnia: Precious Metals and Society in the Western Balkans
Peric, Sabrina Ana (2014-06-06)In 1992, several thousand residents from northern Bosnia's Prijedor region were detained in the Omarska concentration camp, which was created and run on the site of an iron mine by the mine's own engineers, labourers and ...