Buch Details
While recent anthropological studies have focused on reconstructing disputed histories, this book examines the multiple ways in which the past is used by people as a critical resource for interpreting the meanings of a changing present. It poses the issue of the felt relevance of the past in constructing present-day identities. The Greek island of Kalymnos is a barren and seemingly bucolic setting of tourist imagination. But its history has been one of almost continuous occupation by foreign powers and of often fierce resistance. This has made Kalymnians particularly sensitive to seeing their island in a much wider context and to understanding the "games played by the powerful". Controversial contemporary practices of dynamite-throwing and dowry-giving serve as tropes through which Kalymnians explore alternative ways of living in a changing world. Further, the author argues persuasively for the crucial importance of situated fieldwork in "peripheral" places in understanding the issues and conflicts of a transnational world.
- Einband Taschenbuch
- Schriftsteller Sutton, David E.
- ISBN13 9781859739488
- ISBN10 1859739482
- Buchseiten 241
- Jahr der Ausgabe 1997
Memories cast in stone. The relevanec of the past in everyday life
- Autor/in David E. Sutton
- Verlag BERG PUBLISHERS
- ISBN 9781859739488
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