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"[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 College
The 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 Christianity and Islam, Greeks and Turks, Europe and the East, tradition and modernity. Anti-colonial struggles, the divisive effects of ethnic nationalism, war, invasion, territorial division, and population displacements are all facets of the notorious Cyprus Problem. Incorporating the most up-to-date social and cultural research on Cyprus, these essays examine nationalism and interethnic relations, Cyprus and the European Union, the impact of immigration, and the effects of tourism and international environmental movements, among other topics.
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Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Modernity, History, and Conflict in Divided Cyprus: An Overview Yiannis Papadakis, Nicos Peristianis, and Gisela Welz
1. Transforming Lives: Process and Person in Cypriot Modernity Michael Herzfeld
2. On the Condition of Postcoloniality in Cyprus Rebecca Bryant
3. Disclosure and Censorship in Divided Cyprus: Toward an Anthropology of Ethnic Autism Yiannis Papadakis
4. De-Ethnicizing the Ethnography of Cyprus: Political and Social Conflict between Turkish Cypriots and Settlers from Turkey Yael Navaro-Yashin
5. Cypriot Nationalism, Dual Identity, and Politics Nicos Peristianis
6. Children Constructing Ethnic Identities in Cyprus Spyros Spyrou
7. "Contested Natures": An Environmental Conflict in Cyprus Gisela Welz
8. Gardens and the Nature of Rootedness in Cyprus Anne Jepson
9. Researching Society and Culture in Cyprus: Displacements, Hybridities, and Dialogical Frameworks Floya Anthias
10. Recognition and Emotion: Exhumations of Missing Persons in Cyprus Paul Sant Cassia
11. Postscript: Reflections on an Anthropology of Cyprus Vassos Argyrou
List of Contributors
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