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

• Pubblicazione: Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (250 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.8005693
• Soggetto topico: Ethnic conflict - Cyprus; Political violence - Cyprus; Postcolonialism - Cyprus
• Soggetto geografico: Cyprus History Cyprus Crisis, 1974- Congresses; Cyprus History Turkish Invasion, 1974 Congresses; Cyprus Ethnic relations Congresses; Cyprus Politics and government Congresses
• Soggetto non controllato: Anthropological research
• Altri autori: PapadakisYiannis PeristianisN (Nicos) WelzGisela
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Divided Cyprus
• ISBN: 1-282-07278-1; 9786612072789; 0-253-11191-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910784674703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: New anthropologies of Europe.