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Divided Cyprus : modernity, history, and an island in conflict / edited by Yiannis Papadakis, Nicos Peristianis, and Gisela Welz.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- New anthropologies of Europe.
- New anthropologies of Europe
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethnic conflict--Cyprus--Congresses.
- Ethnic conflict.
- Political violence--Cyprus--Congresses.
- Political violence.
- Postcolonialism--Cyprus--Congresses.
- Postcolonialism.
- Cyprus--History--Cyprus Crisis, 1974---Congresses.
- Cyprus.
- Cyprus--History--Turkish Invasion, 1974--Congresses.
- Cyprus--Ethnic relations--Congresses.
- Cyprus--Politics and government--Congresses.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (250 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- ""[U]shers the reader into the complexities of the categorical ambiguity of Cyprus [and]... concentrates... on the Dead Zone of the divided society, in the cultural space where those who refuse to go to the poles gather."" -- Anastasia Karakasidou, Wellesley CollegeThe volatile recent past of Cyprus has turned this island from the idyllic ""island of Aphrodite"" of tourist literature into a place renowned for hostile confrontations. Cyprus challenges familiar binary divisions, between Christiani
- Contents:
- Introduction: Modernity, history, and conflict in divided Cyprus : an overview / Yiannis Papadakis, Nicos Peristianis, and Gisela Welz
- Transforming lives : process and person in Cypriot modernity / Michael Herzfeld
- On the condition of postcoloniality in Cyprus / Rebecca Bryant
- Disclosure and censorship in divided Cyprus : toward an anthropology of ethnic autism / Yiannis Papadakis
- De-ethnicizing the ethnography of Cyprus : political and social conflict between Turkish Cypriots and settlers from Turkey / Yael Navaro-Yashin
- Cypriot nationalism, dual identity, and politics / Nicos Peristianis
- Children constructing ethnic identities in Cyprus / Spyros Spyrou
- "Contested natures" : an environmental conflict in Cyprus / Gisela Welz
- Gardens and the nature of rootedness in Cyprus / Anne Jepson
- Researching society and culture in Cyprus : displacements, hybridities, and dialogical frameworks / Floya Anthias
- Recognition and emotion : exhumations of missing persons in Cyprus / Paul Sant Cassia
- Postscript: Reflections on an anthropology of Cyprus / Vassos Argyrou.
- Notes:
- Proceedings of a conference entitled "Transformation, Inertia, Reconfigurations: A Critical Appraisal of Anthropological Research in Cyprus" hosted jointly at University of Cyprus and Intercollege in Septmber 2001.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-07278-1
- 9786612072789
- 0-253-11191-9
- OCLC:
- 476028528
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