Remembering absence : the sense of life in island Greece /
Nicolas Argenti considers the citizens of the Greek island of Chios and how they reshape memories of a traumatic past to form new ways of coping with moments of contemporary national crisis.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Bloomington, Indiana :
Indiana University Press,
[2019]
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| Series: | New anthropologies of Europe.
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| Online Access: | Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed) |
| Summary: | Nicolas Argenti considers the citizens of the Greek island of Chios and how they reshape memories of a traumatic past to form new ways of coping with moments of contemporary national crisis. "Drawing on research conducted on Chios during the sovereign debt crisis that struck Greece in 2010, Nicolas Argenti follows the lives of individuals who symbolize the transformations affecting this Aegean island. As witnesses to the crisis speak of their lives, however, their current anxieties and frustrations are expressed in terms of past crises that have shaped the dramatic history of Chios, including the German occupation in World War II and the ensuing famine, the exchange of populations between Greece and Turkey of 1922-23, and the Massacres of 1822 that decimated the island at the outset of the Greek War of Independence. The complex temporality that emerges in these accounts is ensconced in a cultural context of commemorative ritual, ecstatic visions, an annual rocket war, and other embodied practices that contribute to forms of memory production that question the assumptions of the trauma discourse, revealing the islanders of Chios to be active in forging their place in time in a manner that blurs the boundaries between historiography, memory, religion, and myth."-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvii, 307 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780253040671 0253040671 9780253040695 0253040698 |