Cyprus and its Places of Desire

ISBN: 9781848858992 出版年：2012 页码：248 Lisa Dikomitis Bloomsbury Publishing

By the summer of 1974, the island of Cyprus wseparate refugee communities. Charting the displaced cultures of the Greek Cypriot community in the south, aTurkish communities in the north, Lisa Dikomitis provides a moving and detailed qualitative ethnography of the refugee experience in Cyprus. In her groundbreaking study, made possible by the opening of the north/south border during fieldwork, Dikomitis demonstrates hgroups are linked by their histories of displaceme'place of desire', a small mountainous village located in the north of the island. By identifying the specific social and cultural meanings that the notions of home, identity, justice and suffering have come to have for both populations, Cyprus and its Places of Desito scholars and students of Cypriot, Turkish and Greek history as well as those with an interest in the fields of anthropology, sociology and identity.