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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457735103321

Titolo

Divided Cyprus [[electronic resource] ] : modernity, history, and an island in conflict / / edited by Yiannis Papadakis, Nicos Peristianis, and Gisela Welz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2006

ISBN

1-282-07278-1

9786612072789

0-253-11191-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (250 p.)

Collana

New anthropologies of Europe

Altri autori (Persone)

PapadakisYiannis

PeristianisN (Nicos)

WelzGisela

Disciplina

305.8005693

Soggetti

Ethnic conflict - Cyprus

Political violence - Cyprus

Postcolonialism - Cyprus

Electronic books.

Cyprus History Cyprus Crisis, 1974- Congresses

Cyprus History Turkish Invasion, 1974 Congresses

Cyprus Ethnic relations Congresses

Cyprus Politics and government Congresses

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

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.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

""[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