Introducing cultural intimacy -- New reflections on the geopolitics of cultural intimacy -- Of definitions and boundaries -- Persuasive resemblances -- The dangers of metaphor : from troubled waters to boiling blood -- Cultural intimacy and the meaning of Europe -- Structural nostalgia : time and the oath in the mountain villages of Crete -- Social poetics in theory and practice : regular guys and irregular practices -- The practice of stereotypes -- Afterword : toward a militant middle ground?

1. Nation-state
2. Minorities
3. Group identity
4. Ethnicity