Myth, Representation, and Identity: An Ethnography of Memory in Lipsi, Greece - Hardcover

Papachristophorou, Marilena

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1137362731 ISBN 13: 9781137362735

Verlag: AIAA, 2013

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Críticas

"Papachristophorou is one of a small but growing number of anthropologists who have identified the value of popular cosmologies, the linkages between these cosmologies and official religion, and the symbolic construction of landscape. In this book, we not only attain a sense of how communities generate moral values but also the boundaries between good and evil, the past and present." - Nick Doumanis, author of Before the Nation and Myth and Memory in the Mediterranean

"This exceptional book offers one of the richest accounts of a village Greek cosmology ever assembled. Papachristophorou captures a local orientation to the landscape and the past which weaves together stories about figures such as Calypso, Ulysses, the devil, saints, and recent historical figures. This portrait of Lipsi disrupts the assumption that 'myth', 'legend', 'religion', and 'history' are necessarily discrete categories." - Charles Stewart, author of Dreaming and Historical Consciousness in Island Greece

Reseña del editor

Lipsi forms a modern construction that has disconnected from its past. Recently, the community has formed a collective identity reconstructed from fragments of collective memory. This book is an ethnographic account of the mythology proposed by the community and examines how history and collective memory tightly interconnect.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: AIAA
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1137362731
• ISBN 13: 9781137362735
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 216