Divided Cyprus: Modernity, History, and an Island in Conflict

250 Pages·2006·1.97 MB·English

by  Yiannis Papadakis

anthropology | european history and politics | middle eastern studies
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“This is a volume that transcends new and old themes Contributors are
in the ethnography of the european margins. Whereas
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earlier studies focused on the ‘traditional’ aspects of the
island’s society, Divided Cyprus acknowledges Cyprus’s vassos Argyrou i
contingent existence in a global world of geopolitics. v
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it humanizes the ethno-national conflict in Cyprus and i
unravels its constructedness.” D
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“[p]resents the most current research in anthropology on yael Navaro-yashin
Cyprus and focuses on issues of wider concern: nationalism
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and minority identities; transnational migration and the flow C
of images, knowledge, and people; interethnic violence and Nicos peristianis
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conflict; the politics and poetics of memory and nostalgia.
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modernity, h istory,
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and an island in
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The volatile recent past of Cyprus has turned this island from the idyllic “island of Aphrodite”
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of tourist literature into a place renowned for hostile confrontations. Cyprus challenges familiar a
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binary divisions between Christianity and islam, Greeks and Turks, europe and the east, tradition
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territorial division, and population displacements are all facets of the notorious Cyprus problem.
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incorporating the most up-to-date social and cultural research on Cyprus, these essays examine i
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nationalism and interethnic relations, Cyprus and the european union, the impact of immigration, ,
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Yiannis PaPadakis is Assistant professor of social and political sciences at the s
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nicos Peristianis is executive Dean of intercollege of Cyprus and president of the
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ISBN-10: 0-253-21851-9 z
University Press Edited by Yiannis Papadakis,
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Divided Cyprus
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NEW ANTHROPOLOGIES OF EUROPE
EDITORS
Daphne Berdahl, Matti Bunzl, and Michael Herzfeld
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Divided
Cyprus
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Yiannis Papadakis,
Nicos Peristianis,
and Gisela Welz
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Bloomington and Indianapolis
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Divided Cyprus : modernity, history, and an island in conflict /
edited by Yiannis Papadakis, Nicos Peristianis, and Gisela Welz.
p. cm.
Proceedings of a conference entitled “Transformation, Inertia,
Reconfigurations: A Critical Appraisal of Anthropological Research
in Cyprus” hosted jointly at University of Cyprus and Intercollege in
Septmber 2001.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-253-34751-3 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 0-253-21851-9
(pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Ethnic conflict—Cyprus. 2. Political vio-
lence—Cyprus. 3. Cyprus—History—Cyprus Crisis, 1974- 4. Cy-
prus—History—Turkish Invasion, 1974. 5. Postcolonialism—Cyprus.
6. Cyprus—Ethnic relations. 7. Cyprus—Politics and government. I.
Papadakis, Yiannis. II. Peristianis, Nicos. III. Welz, Gisela.
GN635.C9D58 2006
305.8005693—dc22
2006001258
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To Peter Loizos
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CONTENTS
A / ix
Introduction
Modernity, History, and Conflict in Divided Cyprus: An Overview
Y P, N P,  G W 1
1. Transforming Lives: Process and Person in Cypriot Modernity
M H 30
2. On the Condition of Postcoloniality in Cyprus
R B 47
3. Disclosure and Censorship in Divided Cyprus: Toward an
Anthropology of Ethnic Autism
Y P 66
4. De-ethnicizing the Ethnography of Cyprus: Political and Social Conflict
between Turkish Cypriots and Settlers from Turkey
Y N-Y 84
5. Cypriot Nationalism, Dual Identity, and Politics
N P 100
6. Children Constructing Ethnic Identities in Cyprus
S S 121
7. “Contested Natures”: An Environmental Conflict in Cyprus
G W 140
8. Gardens and the Nature of Rootedness in Cyprus
A J 158
9. Researching Society and Culture in Cyprus: Displacements, Hybridities,
and Dialogical Frameworks
F A 176
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viii I Contents
10. Recognition and Emotion: Exhumations of Missing Persons in Cyprus
P S C 194
11. Postscript: Reflections on an Anthropology of Cyprus
V A 214
L  C / 
I / 
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We would like to express our warmest gratitude to the University of Cy-
prus and Intercollege for jointly hosting the September 2001 conference,
“Transformation, Inertia, Reconfigurations: A Critical Appraisal of An-
thropological Research in Cyprus,” that provided the initial impetus for
this publication. We would like to thank the two anonymous reviewers for
their helpful comments. We would also like to thank Christina McRoy for
her assistance in copy-editing and in many other ways.
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