By the summer of 1974, the island of Cyprus was home to two
separate refugee communities. Charting the displaced cultures of
the Greek Cypriot community in the south, and that of the Turkish
communities in the north, Lisa Dikomitis provides a moving and
detailed qualitative ethnography of the refugee experience in
Cyprus. In her groundbreaking study, made possible by the opening
of the north/south border during fieldwork, Dikomitis demonstrates
how both ethnic groups are linked by their histories of
displacement to a single 'place of desire', a small mountainous
village located in the north of the island. By identifying the
specific social and cultural meanings that the notions of home,
identity, justice and suffering have come to have for both
populations, Cyprus and its Places of Desire will appeal to
scholars and students of Cypriot, Turkish and Greek history as well
as those with an interest in the fields of anthropology, sociology
and identity.
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