RSS 1.0Rethinking the Mediterranean
Special Issue “Rethinking the Mediterranean” of Zeitschrift für Ethnologie / Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology, published in two parts as issues 145.2 and 146.1–2
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2021ZeitschriftenartikelMediterranean Mediations
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2021ZeitschriftenartikelPerforming and Re-enacting Southern Italian Lament: Ritual Mourning and the Migration of Images in the Mediterranean Funerary lament and ritual weeping are multi-sensorial public expressions of grief that are often referred to as examples of cultural continuity in and across the Mediterranean. In the 1950s, anthropologist Ernesto de ...
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2021ZeitschriftenartikelDigital Hospitality: Trail Running and Technology in the Moroccan High Atlas In the mountainous region of the Central High Atlas in Morocco, tourism has emerged as a promising economic prospect among a number of profound changes recently. However, the implications of digital media technology in ...
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2021ZeitschriftenartikelPlease ‘Like’ Me: Reconfiguring Reputation and Shame in Southeast Turkey This article draws on long-term ethnographic research on the uses of social media and their consequences for people’s everyday lives to shed light on how young men’s long-standing concerns over reputation and shame have ...
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2021ZeitschriftenartikelRethinking New Media and Mediterranean Publics
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2020ZeitschriftenartikelEpilogue – Mediterranean Survivals
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2020ZeitschriftenartikelModernity as Cure and Poison: Photo-Ethnography and Ambiguous Stillness in Therasia, Greece As Therasiotes – residents of Therasia, a sparsely populated island sitting to the west of the globally iconic tourist destination of Santorini – engage with their landscape, they are haunted by a sense of stillness, which ...
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2020ZeitschriftenartikelHow to Win Elections in the Eastern Delta of Egypt: Towards the Idea of a Strategic Tribalism In order to examine the entangled notions of rural hinterlands and practices of future- and place-making, this article focuses on an episode from my fieldwork in Egypt’s Eastern Nile Delta in 2015/16, when I accompanied ...
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2020ZeitschriftenartikelPerforming Resistance: Horon Dance and Chanted Poetry in Turkey’s Transregional Environmental Activism This article examines how folk dance is deployed as an innovative tool of urban and rural contemporary protests in Turkey. It specifically focuses on horon, a popular folk dance genre across the country and a cultural ...
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2020ZeitschriftenartikelMediterranean Ruralities: Towards a Comparative Approach In this article, I discuss several options for apprehending the rurality of the Mediterranean world. The place, if any, of the ‘rural’ is related to the geographical basis of the construction of the Mediterranean as a ...
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2020ZeitschriftenartikelThe Production of Illicit Lives: Racial Governmentality and Colonial Legacies Across the Strait of Gibraltar For centuries, the Strait of Gibraltar has been a crossroads between Africa and Europe. Since the 1980s, however, it has increasingly become a “zone of illegality” (Hannoum 2020) where racial governmentality produces illicit ...
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2020ZeitschriftenartikelHamid’s Travelogue. Mimetic Transformations and Spiritual Connectivities Across Mediterranean Topographies of Grace In their seminal work that helped to re-invent Mediterranean anthropology some 20 years ago, Horden and Purcell argue that the religious landscape reflects both, the fragmented topography of Mediterranean micro-regions and ...
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2020ZeitschriftenartikelConnectivity and its Discontents: The Sahara – Second Face of the Mediterranean? This paper argues that the Sahara can be approached as a region following Horden and Purcell’s (2000) suggestions for the Mediterranean. Or at least, that this is true in economic and ecological terms. Internally, however, ...
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2020Zeitschriftenartikel‘Knitting Together the Unconjoined’: Mediterranean Connectivity Revisited The ancient geographer Strabo imaged Rome’s conquest of a Mediterranean-wide empire as a ‘knitting together’ of ‘unconjoined’ regions – unconjoined because of a lack of harbours or other natural deficiencies. This article ...
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2020ZeitschriftenartikelRethinking the Mediterranean: Extending the Anthropological Laboratory Across Nested Mediterranean Zones
