Fragments of Death, Fables of Identity: An Athenian Anthropography
The death of her grandfather sets Neni Panourgiá and her readers on a path through the rituals of mourning and memory in modern urban Greece. Blending emotional richness and intellectual rigor, the anthropologist returns home in this exploration of kinship and identity within her own family and native city of Athens. What emerges is not only a new anthropological view of contemporary Greek culture, but also a reflective consideration of the self and subject.\ Following men...
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IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsDirections for ReadingNote on TransliterationNote on Photographs1Promythion32The Anthropologist233The City364The Self645Breath and Pulse916La Longue Duree1437Space1688Positions and Signs2009Epimythion (Resistance)217Bibliography223Index239
