Remembering Absence (eBook)
322 Seiten
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-04069-5 (ISBN)
1. This book looks to citizens of the Greek island of Chios and how they reshape memories of a traumatic past to form new ways of coping. Author Nicolas Argenti's writing style is incredibly fluid and engaging, and in each chapter he focuses on the stories of particular local people.
2. As Europe struggles with financial and immigration crises which will shape the political future of the EU, memory and trauma studies are becoming an increasingly pertinent way of showing how anthropological work can offer relevant and insightful ways of coping with this change.
3. Argenti is a well-regarded mid-career academic who has spent the past twenty years working on slavery and trauma studies in Cameroon. This shift to Greek studies comes out of earning a prestigious two-year grant to conduct fieldwork in Chios.
Drawing on research conducted on Chios during the sovereign debt crisis that struck Greece in 2010, Nicolas Argenti follows the lives of individuals who symbolize the transformations affecting this Aegean island. As witnesses to the crisis speak of their lives, however, their current anxieties and frustrations are expressed in terms of past crises that have shaped the dramatic history of Chios, including the German occupation in World War II and the ensuing famine, the exchange of populations between Greece and Turkey of 1922–23, and the Massacres of 1822 that decimated the island at the outset of the Greek War of Independence. The complex temporality that emerges in these accounts is ensconced in a cultural context of commemorative ritual, ecstatic visions, an annual rocket war, and other embodied practices that contribute to forms of memory production that question the assumptions of the trauma discourse, revealing the islanders of Chios to be active in forging their place in time in a manner that blurs the boundaries between historiography, memory, religion, and myth.
A member of the Chiot diaspora, Argenti makes use of unpublished correspondence from survivors of the Massacres of 1822 and their descendants and reflects on oral family histories and silences in which the island represents an enigmatic but palpable absence. As he explores the ways in which a body of memory and a cultural experience of temporality came to be dislocated and shared between two populations, his return to Chios marks an encounter in which the traditional roles of ethnographer and participant come to be dispersed and intertwined.
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Nicolas Argenti is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at Brunel University. He is author of The Intestines of the State: Youth, Violence and Belated Histories in the Cameroon Grassfields, and editor (with Katharina Schramm) of Remembering Violence: Anthropological Perspectives on Intergenerational Transmission.
Preface
Note on Transliteration
Remembering Absence
1. The Light of Certain Stars: From Memory to Historical Simultaneity
2. Full Fathom Five: On the Temporal Dimensions of Exodus
3. Crisis and Famine: Sovereign Debt, Political Violence, and Oneiric Revelation
4. The Love of Flowers: Catastrophe in the Aegean
5. Emptiness of Anavatos: Exile, Commemoration, and Melancholia
6. Ruins of Kidianta: Dwelling, Oblivion, and Resurrection
7. The Abbess of Nea Moni: The Contemporaneity of Divine Vision.
8. Life in the Tomb: Rocket Warriors of Vrontados
9. The Darksome Line: Aegean Temporality
Reference List
Index
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 21.3.2019 |
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Reihe/Serie | New Anthropologies of Europe |
Zusatzinfo | 30 b&w illus. |
Verlagsort | Bloomington |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 150 x 150 mm |
Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik |
Schlagworte | Anavatos • Anthropology • argenti • Catastrophe • Chios • commemoration • COPE • Coping • Crisis • EU • famine • Greece • Greek • Greek island • History • Indiana University Press • IUP • IU Press • Kidianta • Memory • Memory Studies • national crisis • Nea Moni • Nicolas Argenti • PAST • political future • Politics • Remembering Absence • Remembering Absence: Remembering Absence • Research • Trauma • Traumatic • Vrontados |
ISBN-10 | 0-253-04069-8 / 0253040698 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-253-04069-5 / 9780253040695 |
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