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Memories Cast in Stone - The Relevance of the Past in Everyday Life (Hardcover)
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Memories Cast in Stone - The Relevance of the Past in Everyday Life (Hardcover)
Series: Mediterranea
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How does the past matter in the present? How is a feeling of
'ownership' of the past expressed in people's everyday lives?
Should continuity with the distant past be seen as simply a
nationalist fiction or is it transformed by local historical
imagination?
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'.
In examining changing gender relations, European integration, and
local perceptions of the war in the former Yugoslavia, this book
brings together local, national and international perspectives in a
unified field. 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. This book serves as
an highly readable case study of the complex connections between
local and global discourses and practices, and how they are shaped
by their relationship to the past.
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