Tradition in the Frame (eBook)

Photography, Power, and Imagination in Sfakia, Crete

Konstantinos Kalantzis (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
334 Seiten
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-04489-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Kalantzis explores the crossroads of cultural performance and social imagination where the frame is both empowerment and subjection.

1. This book looks at the residents of Crete and how they navigate national and international expectations to preform their tradition and heritage for others. The topic is very timely because Greece is struggling to define itself in the midst of political and financial crisis.
2. While this is a crucial moment in Greece's history, as the European Union grapples with problems of nationalism, this title also offers interpretations and questions which extend well beyond the boundaries of Greece.
3. The author Konstantinos Kalantzis is a new scholar with graduate and postdoctoral work in well-regarded programs. He has a strong social media presence with a well-maintained website which highlights his work.

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Sfakians on the island of Crete are known for their distinctive dress and appearance, fierce ruggedness, and devotion to traditional ways. Konstantinos Kalantzis explores how Sfakians live with the burdens and pleasures of maintaining these expectations of exoticism for themselves, for their fellow Greeks, and for tourists. Sfakian performance of masculine tradition has become even more meaningful for Greeks looking to reimagine their nation's global standing in the wake of stringent financial regulation, and for non-Greek tourists yearning for rootedness and escape from the post-industrial north. Through fine-grained ethnography that pays special attention to photography, Tradition in the Frame explores the ambivalence of a society expected to conform to outsiders' perception of the traditional even as it strives to enact its own vision of tradition. From the bodily reenactment of historical photographs to the unpredictable, emotionally-charged uses of postcards and commercial labels, the book unpacks the question of power and asymmetry but also uncovers other political possibilities that are nested in visual culture and experiences of tradition and the past. Kalantzis explores the crossroads of cultural performance and social imagination where the frame is both empowerment and subjection.

Autor

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Konstantinos Kalantzis is Research Associate in PhotoDemos, Department of Anthropology, University College London. He is director of the ethnographic film Dowsing the Past: Materialities of Civil War Memories.

Inhalt

Contents</>

List of Illustrations

List of Maps

Acknowledgments

Note on Transliteration

Introduction

Part 1 Spatial and National Contexts

1. Driving Up the Yellow Lines: Geography and Imagination

2. Sfakians in the Nation-State

Part 2 On Hegemony

3. Mountain Men as Photographic Subjects and Spectators

4. Performing the Stereotype: Between Containment and "Recalcitrant Alterity"

5. The Experiential in the Fictive: A Film Shoot as Visceral History

6. Who Is Imagining? The Encounter between Shepherds and Scientists

Part 3 Modernity and Its Discontents

7. Polluting Modernity, Disturbing Pasts: Photography and Montage Logic

8. Sfakians and Tourists

Epilogue

Biobliography

Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.8.2019
• Reihe/Serie: New Anthropologies of Europe
• Zusatzinfo: 42 b&w illus., 3 maps
• Verlagsort: Bloomington
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Schlagworte: Europe • Film • Gender • Greece • Greek • Masculinity • photography • Tourism • Visual
• ISBN-10: 0-253-04489-8 / 0253044898
• ISBN-13: 978-0-253-04489-1 / 9780253044891