Cyprus and its Places of Desire Cultures of Displacement Among Greek and Turkish Cypriot Refugees

by Dikomitis, Lisa

• ISBN13: 9781848858992
• ISBN10: 184885899X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-03-15
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris

Summary

By the summer of 1974, the island of Cyprus was home to two separate refugee communities. Charting the displaced cultures of the Greek Cypriot community in the south, and that of the Turkish 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 how both ethnic groups are linked by their histories of displacement to a single 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 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.

Author Biography

Lisa Dikomitis is a Postdoctoral researcher at Ghent University, where she gained her PhD in Anthropology, and the co-editor of When God Comes to Town: Religious Traditions in Urban Contexts.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. ix
List of Figures	p. xiii
Preliminary Notes	p. xv
A Village in Paradise	p. 1
Introduction An Island in Transition	p. 6
Nothing Compares to Our Village	p. 36
A Crack in the Border	p. 59
Pilgrims and Tourists	p. 93
Under One Roof	p. 117
This is Our Village	p. 137
Refugees and Locals	p. 169
Places of Desire	p. 195
Notes	p. 202
Bibliography	p. 217
Index	p. 225
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