List of Plates
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Foreword
Preface to the Paperback Edition
Preface
Acknowledgements
Glossary
Chapter 1. Refugees for Fifty Years
Chapter 2. The Ottoman Past in the Refugee
Present
Chapter 3. Identity and Hardship: The Urban
Refugee Experience
Chapter 4. Yerania: Place and Space
Chapter 5. Earning a Living
Chapter 6. The House, the Dowry, and Marriage:
Continuity and Adaptation
Chapter 7. The House: Symbolic and Social
Worlds
Chapter 8. Neighbourhood Life: Integration and
Ambiguity
Chapter 9. Religious Life and Death in Yerania
Chapter 10. The Triumph of Life
Appendices
Appendix I: Conflict in Close Quarters: The
Legal Tangle
Appendix II: Results of Household Survey in
Yerania, 1972
Appendix III: Categories of Occupation in Yerania,
1972
Notes
References
Index
Renée Hirschon was educated at the universities of Cape Town, Chicago and Oxford. Intensive fieldwork among the Asia Minor refugees settled in Piraeus resulted in the monograph "Heirs of the Greek Catastrophe". She has been Senior Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University, and Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of the Aegean. She is currently Senior Research Fellow at St Peter's College University of Oxford, Senior Member at St Antony's College University of Oxford and Research Associate at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford.
"... elegantly written and intellectually coherent ... a marvellous study." · Anthropological Quarterly "By stimulating new debates on important theoretical issues, the book makes essential reading for anyone with an interest in Mediterranean Europe." · JASO "This well-crafted volume provides ... indispensable reading for students of ethnicity in general,and modern Greek society in particular." · International Migration Review "... a welcome innovation: it opens up the field of urban anthropology, while at the same time it remains within the best tradition of anthropology monographs." · Modern Greek Studies Yearbook
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