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 EditionIntroduction: Historicizing a HistoryPrologue to the Greek EditionAlki Kyriakidou-NestorosChapter 1. Past Glories, Present PoliticsChapter 2. Extroversion and IntrospectionChapter 3. National Character, National ConsciousnessChapter 4. Attack and ReactionChapter 5. The Creation of a DisciplineChapter 6. Expansion and CollapseConclusion: Conclusions and EmergencesEpilogue: Laying the Foundations of the Anthropology of Europe: An Ethnography of Culture TheorySharon MacdonaldAppendix A: Politis' Folklore TaxonomyAppendix B: Basic ChronologyReferencesIndex

“This is a useful and worthy addition to the all too meager scholarly literature on the subject.” • The American Historical Review“…a specially valuable contribution to the study of ethnographic theory…because it engenders discussion of the relationship of social science discourse to its subjects.” • Anthropological Quarterly“Ours Once More is pleasantly written, and it comes highly recommended to anyone generally interested in the nineteenth- century emergence of the Greek nation.” • Folklore“Herzfeld’s book, as he states himself, is essentially ‘an anthropology of anthropologists’; but, in my opinion, its importance is much greater than any study of a group of mere academics and intellectuals.” • Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford (JASO)“It is an important contribution to intellectual history in that it deals with the prevailing ideas at a given time, places them in wider context and shows their consequences in the formation of the Greek state.” • Journal of Modern Greek Studies