Ours Once More

Michael Herzfeld is Ernest E. Monrad Research Professor of the Social Sciences in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University. He is the author of eleven books, the most recent of which was Siege of the Spirits: Community and Polity in Bangkok (2016, University of Chicago Press). He is a former president of the Modern Greek Studies Association and of the Society for the Anthropology of Europe.

Preface to the First Edition



Introduction: Historicizing a History



Prologue to the Greek Edition

Alki Kyriakidou-Nestoros



Chapter 1. Past Glories, Present Politics

Chapter 2. Extroversion and Introspection

Chapter 3. National Character, National Consciousness

Chapter 4. Attack and Reaction

Chapter 5. The Creation of a Discipline

Chapter 6. Expansion and Collapse



Conclusion: Conclusions and Emergences



Epilogue: Laying the Foundations of the Anthropology of Europe: An Ethnography of Culture Theory

Sharon Macdonald



Appendix A: Politis' Folklore Taxonomy

Appendix B: Basic Chronology



References

Index