Bodies of Evidence

Burial, Memory and the Recovery of Missing Persons in Cyprus
1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-1-57181-646-7
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 20, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 529 g

Reihe: New Directions in Anthropology

In the course of hostilities between Greek and Turkish Cypriots between 1963 and 1974, over 2000 persons, both Greek and Turkish Cypriots, went "missing" in Cyprus, an island in the Mediterranean with a population distribution of 80% Greeks and 18% Turks. This represents a significant number for a population of only 600,000. Few bodies have been recovered; most will probably not be. All are still mourned by their surviving friends and relatives. The conflict has still not been resolved and the memories are still alive.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cassia, Paul Sant

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures and Maps

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1. Heirs of Antigone: Disappearances and Political Memory

Chapter 2. Suppressed Experiences

Chapter 3. Testimonies of Fragmentation, Recollections of Unity

Chapter 4. The Missing as a Set of Representations

Chapter 5. The Martyrdom of the Missing

Chapter 6. L’image Juste, or Juste une Image?

Chapter 7. Painting Absences, Describing Losses

Chapter 8. Antigone’s Doubt, Creon’s Dilemma

Chapter 9. Power, Complicity, and Public Secrecy

Bibliography

Appendices

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Cassia, Paul Sant
Paul Sant Cassia is Reader in Anthropology at the University of Durham, UK, and Editor of History and Anthropology. He previously lectured at the University of Cambridge, UK, where he was Curator of the Anthropology Collections at the Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (1985-1990). He was Visiting Professor at the Universities of Paris (Nanterre) (2000), Aix en Provence, and Malta (1992-94). He has conducted anthropological research in the Mediterranean (Cyprus, Greece, Tunisia, and Malta), and has published on politics, banditry and violence, oratory, property transmissions, family and kinship, and ethnomusicology. He is the author (with Constantina Bada) of The Making of the Modern Greek Family (Cambridge University Press, 1992).

Paul Sant Cassia is Reader in Anthropology at the University of Durham, UK, and Editor of History and Anthropology. He previously lectured at the University of Cambridge, UK, where he was Curator of the Anthropology Collections at the Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (1985-1990). He was Visiting Professor at the Universities of Paris (Nanterre) (2000), Aix en Provence, and Malta (1992-94). He has conducted anthropological research in the Mediterranean (Cyprus, Greece, Tunisia, and Malta), and has published on politics, banditry and violence, oratory, property transmissions, family and kinship, and ethnomusicology. He is the author (with Constantina Bada) of The Making of the Modern Greek Family (Cambridge University Press, 1992).