The Nomads of Mykonos : : Performing Liminalities in a 'Queer' Space /

The Nomads of Mykonos : : Performing Liminalities in a 'Queer' Space / / Pola Bousiou.

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 community of dispersed friends. Their constant return to and insistence on working, acting and creating in a tourist spa...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Bousiou, Pola,
Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2008]
©2008
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
Series:New Directions in Anthropology ; 29
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Physical Description:1 online resource (322 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 1 MYKONOS: THE BUILDING OF A LIMINAL SPACE-MYTH
  • 2 NARRATIVES OF BELONGING: THE MYTH OF AN ‘INDIGENOUS’ OTHERNESS
  • 3 NARRATIVES OF THE SELF: AN ECCENTRIC MYTH OF OTHERNESS
  • 4 NARRATIVES OF PLACE: A SPATIAL MYTH OF OTHERNESS
  • 5 NARRATIVES OF DIFFERENCE: AN AESTHETIC MYTH OF OTHERNESS
  • CONCLUSION
  • EPILOGUE A BEACH FAREWELL
  • APPENDIX I THE PROBLEM OF AGENCY IN THE GREEK ETHNOGRAPHIC SUBJECT
  • APPENDIX II THE EMERGENCE OF THE SENSUAL POST-TOURIST: CONSUMING ‘CULTURES’, MULTISUBJECTIVE SELVES AND (TRANS)LOCAL SPACES
  • GLOSSARY
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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