Acknowledgments List of Figures Preliminary Notes A Village in Paradise Introduction: An Island in Transition Chapter One: Nothing Compares to Our Village Chapter Two: A Crack in the Border Chapter Three: Pilgrims and Tourists Chapter Four: Under One Roof Chapter Five: This is Our Village Chapter Six: Refugees and Locals Places of Desire Notes Bibliography 2 Index
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 Desire will appeal to scholars and students of Cypriot, Turkish and Greek history as well as those with an interest in the fields of anthropology, sociology and identity.
Lisa Dikomitis is Postdoctoral Researcher at Ghent University, where she gained her PhD in Comparative Sciences of Cultures, and the co-editor of When God Comes to Town: Religious Traditions in Urban Contexts.
Lisa Dikomitis has written an even-handed account of two groups of people linked by their painful histories of displacement to a single place, Larnakas tis Lapithou in Greek, Kozan in Turkish. It was difficult because she did not have the luxury of a neutral identity, as her father was once an inhabitant of the village in question, but settled in Belgium. Dr. Dikomitis initially enjoyed a fund of goodwill from her Greek Cypriot relatives, but when she made first contacts with Turkish Cypriots, their trust had to be earned the hard way. And while doing so, she risked losing the trust of her Greek Cypriot co-villagers. Fortunately, she met both challenges impressively. One of the great strengths of this book is the continuous use of apt quotations from informants, which brings life and colour into the text. In addition Lisa Dikomitis writes easily, persuasively and clearly. She has integrated ethnography with theory, but wears her learning lightly. These are unusual achievements, a significant contribution to the anthropology of Cyprus, and to the sociological understanding of forced migrations. -Professor Peter Loizos, Emeritus Professor, LSE
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