In this innovative book Dr Morris seeks to show the many ways in which the excavated
remains of burials can and should be a major source of evidence for social historians of the …

Never before have so many people ended up in a place different from where they began,
something which made the twentieth century a century of migration. Culture is central to the …

How does the past matter in the present? How is a feeling of 'ownership'of the past
expressed in people's everyday lives? Should continuity with the distant past be seen as …

In his vivid, lively account of how Greek Cypriot villagers coped with a thirty-year
displacement, Peter Loïzos follows a group of people whom he encountered as prosperous …

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 …

This article offers a definition of “domestic power” and attempts to operationalize this for
comparative study of gender relations in southern Europe. It describes male‐female …

This is the ethnography of the Mykoniots d'élection, a'gang'of romantic adventurers who
have been visiting the island of Mykonos for the last thirty-five years and have formed a …

We all age. But how we understand age and aging depends on cultural context. The early
followers of Jesus experienced growing up and growing old in a world where more than a …

The study of the material markers of death in contemporary Greece reveals several
dimensions of mortuary practice not necessarily obvious from the analysis of social and …

Anthropological discussions of gender in the Mediterranean have tended to focus on two
related issues: the control of female sexuality, particularly in terms of concepts of “honor and …