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Subversive Archaism: Troubling Traditionalists and the Politics of National Heritage

Subversive Archaism: Troubling Traditionalists and the Politics of National Heritage

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Series: Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures

AnthropologyGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 1478017627
ISBN13: 9781478017622
Publisher: Duke Univ Pr
Published: Jan 25 2022
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.54 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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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