Professor of Anthropology
(On leave: Spring 2005)
William James Hall, Room 382
617-496-5190
Michael Herzfeld, Professor of Anthropology since 1991, received his B.A. from Cambridge University, his M.A. from the University of Birmingham, and his doctorate from Oxford University (Hertford College). Before coming to Harvard, he taught at Vassar College from 1978-1980; and Indiana University from 1980-1991.
He has published numerous books and articles using the ethnographic materials he collected in Greece, including:
Cultural Intimacy: Social Poetics in the Nation-State (Routledge, 1997); Portrait of a Greek Imagination: An Ethnographic Biography of Andreas Nenedakis (University of Chicago Press, 1997); The Social Production of Indifference: Exploring the Symbolic Roots of Western Bureaucracy (Berg, 1992); and, Ours Once More: Folklore, Identity and the Making of Modern Greece (University of Texas Press, 1982).
Recent research includes a study of the notions of apprenticeship on Crete, attempting to relate how master artisans teach their apprentices the "moral ropes of urban life" as well as the skill of being craftsmen, and a study of the political uses of historical memory in modern Rome.
Courses that he has taught include Foreign Cultures 74. Cultures of Southern Europe.
Anthropology
153. Nationalism and Bureaucracy
[Anthropology
221. The Anthropology of Knowledge: Seminar]
[Anthropology
264 (formerly Social Analysis 48). Anthropology and the Uses of History]
Anthropology
268. Ethnography and Personhood
*Anthropology 340. Reading
and Research
Foreign
Cultures 74. Cultures of Southern Europe