He has conducted extensive fieldwork in Greece, Italy, and Thailand, and is author of nine books, most recently The Body Impolitic: Artisans and Artifice in the Global Hierarchy of Value (University of Chicago Press, 2004) and Cultural Intimacy: Social Poetics in the Nation State (2nd, revised edition, Routledge, 2005). Monti Moments is his first film.
Herzfeld is now working on a second film on the politics of eviction and historic conservation at the Pom Mahakan site in Bangkok, Thailand.