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Title

Imagining the modern : the cultures of nationalism in Cyprus / Rebecca Bryant.

Author

Bryant, Rebecca (Professor of anthropology)

Publication

London ; New York : I.B. Tauris ; New York ; In the U.S. distributed by Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

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Description

xi, 307 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

"Imagining the Modern argues that two conflicting styles of nationalist imagination led to the violent rending of Cyprus in 1974 and sustained that division over decades. Basing her study on comparative research in both southern and northern Cyprus, Rebecca Bryant demonstrates how the conflict emerged through Cypriots' encounters with modernity under British colonialism, and through a consequent reimagining of the body politic in a new world in which Cypriots were defined as part of a European periphery."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Cyprus > Ethnic relations
• Ethnicity > Cyprus
• Nationalism > Cyprus

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-269) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Rights and religions -- 2. Bandits and "bad characters" -- 3. Tactics and truths -- 4. Pashas and protests -- 5. Educating ethnicity -- 6. education in honor -- 7. purity of spirit and the power of blood -- 8. Justice or respect? -- Conclusion : toward a postnational Cyprus.

ISBN

• 185043462X
• 1850434611 (HBK.) :

OCLC

53460185

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library