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"Papachristophorou is one of a small but growing number of anthropologists who have identified the value of popular cosmologies, the linkages between these cosmologies and official religion, and the symbolic construction of landscape. In this book, we not only attain a sense of how communities generate moral values but also the boundaries between good and evil, the past and present." - Nick Doumanis, author of Before the Nation and Myth and Memory in the Mediterranean
"This exceptional book offers one of the richest accounts of a village Greek cosmology ever assembled. Papachristophorou captures a local orientation to the landscape and the past which weaves together stories about figures such as Calypso, Ulysses, the devil, saints, and recent historical figures. This portrait of Lipsi disrupts the assumption that 'myth', 'legend', 'religion', and 'history' are necessarily discrete categories." - Charles Stewart, author of Dreaming and Historical Consciousness in Island Greece
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Book Title: Myth, Representation, and Identity
Book Subtitle: An Ethnography of Memory in Lipsi, Greece
Authors: Marilena Papachristophorou
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137362759
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Media & Culture Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Marilena Papachristophorou 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-36273-5Published: 17 December 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-47276-5Published: 18 December 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-36275-9Published: 17 December 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 198
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology of Religion, Social Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology, Sociology, general, European History