Drawing upon anthropological studies that document culturally
specific ways of perceiving ethic Others in Greece and Cyprus, this
book explores the cultural boundaries of the categories Greek and
Turk, and compares views on what it means to be one of these ethnic
groups or both. The contributors examine the opinions of diverse
social groups, such as ordinary middle-class citizens,
intellectuals, army officers, children, villagers, refugees from
Asia Minor, and Greek-and-Turkisj-Cypriots. They also investigate
the local attitudes to international politics and highlight the
contextual as opposed to immutable and essentialist meaning of
evaluations about nations, such as Greece, Turkey and Cyprus, and
their citizens.
When Greeks think about Turks carefully unpacks the cultural
meaning of popular metaphors, stereotypes and versions of history
as these are articulated in the context of discussions about the
Turks in Greece. It sets the template for understanding how local
perceptions of resemblance and difference provide a conceptual
framework for defining and negotiating ethnic identity at the
local, national and international level. It sheds valuable light on
the politics of identity-making and the constitution of nationalism
in Greece and Cyprus.
This book was previously published as a special issue of South
European Society and Politics.
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