Myth, Representation, and Identity An Ethnography of Memory in Lipsi
Lipsi forms a modern construction that has disconnected from its past. Recently, the community has formed a collective identity reconstructed from fragments of collective memory. This book is an ethnographic account of the mythology proposed by the commun
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Myth, Representation, and Identity
10.1057/9781137362759 - Myth, Representation, and Identity, Marilena Papachristophorou
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2002 Λαϊκή Φιλολογία (Popular Literature, coauthored with D. Damianou & M. Mirasghezi), Studies in Greek Civilization (Module: Public and Private Life in Greece II—Modern Times), Patra: Hellenic Open University.
10.1057/9781137362759 - Myth, Representation, and Identity, Marilena Papachristophorou
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2002 Sommeils et veilles dans le conte merveilleux grec (FF Communications 279), Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia.
An Ethnography of Memory in Lipsi, Greece Marilena Papachristophorou
10.1057/9781137362759 - Myth, Representation, and Identity, Marilena Papachristophorou
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Myth, Representation, and Identity
MYTH, REPRESENTATION, AND IDENTITY Copyright © Marilena Papachristophorou, 2013.
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Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN: 978–1–137–36273–5 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Papachristophorou, Marilena, 1966– Myth, representation, and identity : an ethnography of memory in Lipsi, Greece / Marilena Papachristophorou. pages cm ISBN: 978–1–137–36273–5 (alk. paper) 1. Ethnology—Greece—Lipsos Island. 2. Mythology, Greek—Greece— Lipsos Island. 3. Oral tradition—Greece—Lipsos Island. 4. Lipsos Island (Greece)—History. 5. Lipsos Island (Greece)—Social life and customs. I. Title. GN585.G85P36 2013 305.8009495—dc23
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10.1057/9781137362759 - Myth, Representation, and Identity, Marilena Papachristophorou
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List of Figures
vii
Preface
ix
Acknowledgments Introduction
Lipsi 2000–2010: History and Storytelling
xiii 1
One
“On the island of goddess Calypso”
15
Two
About Origins (And the Story Goes On)
27
Three
Demons and Sancta
47
Four
Hierophanies and Miracles
63
Five
Fertility a
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