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Author Bryant, Rebecca (Professor of anthropology)

Title The past in pieces : belonging in the new Cyprus / Rebecca Bryant
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 207 pages) : illustrations
Series Contemporary ethnography.
Contents The sorrow of unanswered questions -- A prelude to mourning -- Paths of no return -- The anxieties of an opening -- A needle in a handkerchief -- Geographies of loss -- In the ruins of memory -- The spoils of history -- The pieces of peace -- Betrayals of the past -- Reading the future (in lieu of a conclusion)
Summary By examining oral history collected during two years of fieldwork, anthropologist Rebecca Bryant investigates why the 2003 opening of the ceasefire line dividing Cyprus has not led the country any closer to reunification, and how in many ways it has driven the two communities of the island farther apart
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-205)
Notes This edition in English
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Subject Greeks -- Cyprus -- Ethnic identity
Turks -- Cyprus -- Ethnic identity
Nationalism -- Cyprus
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
Ethnic relations
Greeks -- Ethnic identity
Nationalism
Turks -- Ethnic identity
SUBJECT Cyprus -- Ethnic relations
Cyprus -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85035188
Subject Cyprus
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2010004560
ISBN 9780812206661
0812206665
0812222318
9780812222319