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Remembering absence : the sense of life in island Greece
- Title
- Remembering absence : the sense of life in island Greece / Nicolas Argenti.
- Author
- Argenti, Nicolas
- Publication
- Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2019]
- ©2019
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Details
- Description
- xvii, 307 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.
- Summary
- "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"--Back cover.
- Series Statement
- New anthropologies of Europe
- Uniform Title
- New anthropologies of Europe.
- Subject
- Collective memory > Greece > Chios
- Psychic trauma > Greece > Chios
- HISTORY / Europe / Greece
- Collective memory
- Manners and customs
- Psychic trauma
- Chios (Greece) > Social life and customs
- Chios (Greece : Municipality) > History > 19th century
- Chios (Greece : Municipality) > History > 20th century
- Aegean Islands (Greece and Turkey) > History
- Greece > Chios
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-295) and index.
- Contents
- Preface -- Note on transliteration. Remembering absence -- The light of certain stars: from memory to historical simultaneity -- Full fathom five: on the temporal dimensions of exodus -- Crisis and famine: sovereign debt, political violence, and Oneiric revelation -- The love of flowers: catastrophe in the Aegean -- Emptiness of Anavatos: exile, commemoration, and melancholia -- Ruins of Kidianta: dwelling, oblivion, and resurrection -- The Abbess of Nea Moni: the contemporaneity of divine vision -- Life in the tomb: rocket warriors of Vrontados -- The darksome line: Aegean temporality. Reference list -- Index.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-8463
- ISBN
- 9780253040664
- 0253040663
- 9780253040657
- 0253040655
- LCCN
- 2018287937
- OCLC
- 1099466375
- Author
- Argenti, Nicolas, author.
- Title
- Remembering absence : the sense of life in island Greece / Nicolas Argenti.
- Publisher
- Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2019]
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- New anthropologies of EuropeNew anthropologies of Europe.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-295) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-8463