The nomads of Mykonos : performing liminalities in a 'queer' space / Pola Bousiou.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bousiou, Pola, 1967-

Series:

New directions in anthropology ; v. 29.

New directions in anthropology ; v. 29

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology--Greece--Mykonos.

Ethnology.

Gay people--Travel--Greece--Mykonos.

Gay people.

Gay people--Greece--Mykonos--Social life and customs.

Group identity--Greece--Mykonos.

Group identity.

Geographical perception--Greece--Mykonos.

Geographical perception.

Culture and tourism--Greece--Mykonos.

Culture and tourism.

Mykonos (Greece)--Social life and customs.

Mykonos (Greece).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (322 p.)

Other Title:

Performing liminalities in a 'queer' space

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2008.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

This is the ethnography of the Mykoniots d'élection , a 'gang' of romantic adventurers who have been visiting the island of Mykonos for the last thirty-five years and have formed a community of dispersed friends. Their constant return to and insistence on working, acting and creating in a tourist space, offers them an extreme identity, which in turn is aesthetically marked by the transient cultural properties of Mykonos. Drawing semiotically from its ancient counterpart Delos, whose myth of emergence entails a spatial restlessness, contemporary Mykonos also acquires an idiosyncratic fluidity.

Contents:

Mykonos : the building of a liminal space-myth

Narratives of belonging : the myth of an 'indigenous' otherness

Narratives of the self : an eccentric myth of otherness

Narratives of place : a spatial myth of otherness

Narratives of difference : an aesthetic myth of otherness.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-291) and index.

ISBN:

9786612627033

9781845454661

1845454669

9781282627031

1282627031

9780857450685

0857450689

OCLC:

647933031