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The Nomads of Mykonos - Performing Liminalities in a 'Queer' Space (Hardcover)
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The Nomads of Mykonos - Performing Liminalities in a 'Queer' Space (Hardcover)
Series: New Directions in Anthropology
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This is the ethnography of the Mykoniots d'election, a 'gang' of
romantic adventurers who have been visiting the island of Mykonos
for the last thirty-five years and have formed a community of
dispersed friends. Their constant return to and insistence on
working, acting and creating in a tourist space, offers them an
extreme identity, which in turn is aesthetically marked by the
transient cultural properties of Mykonos. Drawing semiotically from
its ancient counterpart Delos, whose myth of emergence entails a
spatial restlessness, contemporary Mykonos also acquires an
idiosyncratic fluidity. In mythology Delos, the island of Apollo,
was condemned by the gods to be an island in constant movement.
Mykonos, as a signifier of a new form of ontological nomadism,
semiotically shares such assumptions. The Nomads of Mykonos keep
returning to a series of alternative affective groups largely in
order to heal a split: between their desire for autonomy, rebellion
and aloneness and their need to affectively belong to a
collectivity. Mykonos for the Mykoniots d'election is their
permanent 'stopover'; their regular comings and goings discursively
project onto Mykonos' space an allegorical (discordant) notion of
'home'.
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