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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- LIST OF FIGURES -- PREFACE -- NOTES ON TRANSLITERATION AND KINSHIP ABBREVIATIONS -- CHAPTER ONE. The Poetics of Manhood -- CHAPTER TWO. Lines of Contest -- CHAPTER THREE. The Uses of Ideology -- CHAPTER FOUR. Idioms of Contest -- CHAPTER FIVE. Stealing to Befriend -- CHAPTER SIX. Reciprocity and Closure -- CHAPTER SEVEN. Sin and the Self -- CHAPTER EIGHT. Transformations -- APPENDIX. Specimen Greek Texts -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX

Contents -- Preface -- 1. Claiming Culture -- 2. Community, City, and Polity -- 3. The State and the City -- 4. Law, Courtesy, and the Tactics of Temporality -- 5. Currents and Countercurrents -- 6. Time, Sound, and Rhythm -- 7. The Polity in Miniature -- 8. Building the Future of the Past -- Notes -- References -- Index

1. Introducing cultural intimacy -- 2. The geopolitics of cultural intimacy -- 3. Of definitions and boundaries -- 4. Persuasive resemblances -- 5. The dangers of metaphor : from troubled waters to boiling blood -- 6. Cultural intimacy and the meaning of Europe -- 7. Structural nostalgia : time and the oath in the mountain villages of Crete -- 8. Social poetics in theory and practice : regular guys and irregular practices -- 9. The practice of stereotypes.

"What happens when three hundred alleged squatters go head-to-head with an enormous city government looking to develop the place where they live? As anthropologist Michael Herzfeld shows in this book, the answer can be surprising. He tells the story of Pom Mahakan, a tiny enclave in the heart of old Bangkok whose residents have resisted authorities' demands to vacate their homes for a quarter of a century. It's a story of community versus government, of old versus new, and of political will versus the law. Herzfeld argues that even though the residents of Pom Mahakan have lost every legal battle the city government has dragged them into, they have won every public relations contest, highlighting their struggle as one against bureaucrats who do not respect the age-old values of Thai/Siamese social and cultural order. Such values include compassion for the poor and an understanding of urban space as deeply embedded in social and ritual relations. In a gripping account of their standoff, Herzfeld--who simultaneously argues for the importance of activism in scholarship--traces the agile political tactics and styles of the community's leadership, using their struggle to illuminate the larger difficulties, tensions, and unresolved debates that continue to roil Thai society to this day."--

Modern Rome is a city rife with contradictions. Once the seat of ancient glory, it is now often the object of national contempt. It plays a significant part on the world stage, but the concerns of its residents are often deeply parochial. And while they live in the seat of a world religion, Romans can be vehemently anticlerical. These tensions between the past and the present, the global and the local, make Rome fertile ground to study urban social life, the construction of the past, the role of religion in daily life, and how a capital city relates to the rest of the nation.Michael Herzfeld f