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A Place in History: Social and Monumental Time in a Cretan Town
Michael Herzfeld
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Description for A Place in History: Social and Monumental Time in a Cretan Town
Paperback. Describes what happens when a bureaucracy charged with historic conservation clashes with a local populace hostile to the state and suspicious of tourism. Focusing on the Cretan town of Rethemnos, once a center of learning under Venetian rule and later inhabited by the Turks, this book examines questions confronting conservators and citizens. Series: Princeton Studies in Culture, Power, History. Num Pages: 330 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVG; HBJD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 485.
Michael Herzfeld describes what happens when a bureaucracy charged with historic conservation clashes with a local populace hostile to the state and suspicious of tourism. Focusing on the Cretan town of Rethemnos, once a center of learning under Venetian rule and later inhabited by the Turks, he examines major questions confronting conservators and citizens as they negotiate the "ownership" of history: Who defines the past? To whom does the past belong? What is "traditional" and how is this determined? Exploring the meanings of the built environment for Rethemnos's inhabitants, Herzfeld finds that their interest in it has more to do ... Read more
Michael Herzfeld describes what happens when a bureaucracy charged with historic conservation clashes with a local populace hostile to the state and suspicious of tourism. Focusing on the Cretan town of Rethemnos, once a center of learning under Venetian rule and later inhabited by the Turks, he examines major questions confronting conservators and citizens as they negotiate the "ownership" of history: Who defines the past? To whom does the past belong? What is "traditional" and how is this determined? Exploring the meanings of the built environment for Rethemnos's inhabitants, Herzfeld finds that their interest in it has more to do ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
330
Condition
New
Series
Princeton Studies in Culture, Power, History
Number of Pages
330
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691028552
SKU
V9780691028552
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Reviews for A Place in History: Social and Monumental Time in a Cretan Town
"Herezfeld once again assures his place as one of the finest ethnographers to work in Greece... This rare study of social organization in a provincial Greek city sheds much light on how public officials and citizens debate their connection to the Greek past."
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