Cultural Intimacy : Social Poetics in the Nation-State

Preface and Acknowledgments ix Introducing Cultural Intimacy 1(38) New Reflections on the Geopolitics of Cultural Intimacy 39(34) Of Definitions and Boundaries 73(20) Persuasive Resemblances 93(18) The Dangers of Metaphor: From Troubled Waters to Boiling Blood 111(16) Cultural Intimacy and the Meaning of Europe 127(20) Structural Nostalgia: Time and the Oath in the Mountain Villages of Crete 147(36) Social Poetics in Theory and Practice: Regular Guys and Irregular Practices 183(18) The Practice of Stereotypes 201(10) Afterword: Toward a Militant Middle Ground? 211(14) Notes 225(16) References cited 241(28) Index 269