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"[U]shers the reader into the complexities of the categorical ambiguity of Cyprus [and] . . . concentrates . . . on the Dead Zone of the divided society, in the cultural space where those who refuse to go to the poles gather." —Anastasia Karakasidou, Wellesley College
The volatile recent past of Cyprus has turned this island from the idyllic "island of Aphrodite" of tourist literature into a place renowned for hostile confrontations. Cyprus challenges familiar binary divisions, between Christianity and Islam, Greeks and Turks, Europe and the East, tradition and modernity. Anti-colonial struggles, the divisive effects of ethnic nationalism, war, invasion, territorial division, and population displacements are all facets of the notorious Cyprus Problem. Incorporating the most up-to-date social and cultural research on Cyprus, these essays examine nationalism and interethnic relations, Cyprus and the European Union, the impact of immigration, and the effects of tourism and international environmental movements, among other topics.
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Acknowledgments
Introduction: Modernity, History, and Conflict in Divided Cyprus: An OverviewYiannis Papadakis, Nicos Peristianis, and Gisela Welz
1. Transforming Lives: Process and Person in Cypriot ModernityMichael Herzfeld
2. On the Condition of Postcoloniality in CyprusRebecca Bryant
3. Disclosure and Censorship in Divided Cyprus: Toward an Anthropology of Ethnic AutismYiannis Papadakis
4. De-Ethnicizing the Ethnography of Cyprus: Political and Social Conflict between Turkish Cypriots and Settlers from TurkeyYael Navaro-Yashin
5. Cypriot Nationalism, Dual Identity, and PoliticsNicos Peristianis
6. Children Constructing Ethnic Identities in CyprusSpyros Spyrou
7. "Contested Natures": An Environmental Conflict in CyprusGisela Welz
8. Gardens and the Nature of Rootedness in CyprusAnne Jepson
9. Researching Society and Culture in Cyprus: Displacements, Hybridities, and Dialogical FrameworksFloya Anthias
10. Recognition and Emotion: Exhumations of Missing Persons in CyprusPaul Sant Cassia
11. Postscript: Reflections on an Anthropology of CyprusVassos Argyrou
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