""Notes from the Balkans" is a classic. I cannot name a single work
that succeeds so consistently in underscoring the contextually
specific and negotiable character of social identity without
falling into the cynical trap of treating the dynamics of social
identification and disavowal as nothing more than 'strategic.' Nor
can I name more than one or two ethnographic forays into the
jargon-laden terrains of the anthropology of alternative
modernities that are even remotely as engaging and as readable. Wry
and straightforward, Green's writing also has genuine life; it is
very often a vivid text and its vividness is even further served by
the well-chosen selection of visual materials that complement
it."--James Faubion, Rice University, author of "Rethinking the
Subject"
"This is an innovative, event-rich, and energising book. The
author quite brilliantly turns an archaeological project, how to
model different 'times' layered in the landscape into an
anthropological one, where the issue is the overlapping and
intersecting sectarianism in everything that is understood as
'Balkan.' The result is a resounding critique of the popular notion
of fragmentation. And a significant anticipation: after lying
dormant for a decade or more, complexity theory is about to
re-enter anthropology with very much a twenty-first century cast,
and here she has laid out a fascinating field. Above all, among the
dimensions in this work that keep their scale is a sense of close
involvement and directness that also makes it a very human account.
This is anthropological life indeed!"--Marilyn Strathern,
University of Cambridge, author of "Property, Substance and Effect:
Anthropological Essays on Persons andThings"
"This is a refreshingly original, well-written, richly
insightful, and intellectually agile look at a little-understood
segment of the Balkan region. It provocatively undercuts
conventional understandings of that region itself, showing how its
peculiar and often evanescent features reflect a complex political
reality that is reproduced in shimmering fragments on the ground.
With a deft interplay between artfully casual-seeming ethnographic
vignettes and what are clearly the results of sometimes
backbreaking traversals of a rough and complex territory, she shows
how the ordinary and the marginal constitute the best hope for
understanding the political processes that generate precisely those
conditions."--Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University, author of "The
Body Impolitic"
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