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 farmers in 1968, yet found as disoriented refugees when revisiting in 1975. By providing a forty year in-depth perspective unusual in the social sciences, this study yields unconventional insights into the deeper meanings of displacement. It focuses on reconstruction of livelihoods, conservation of family, community, social capital, health (both physical and mental), religious and political perceptions. The author argues for a closer collaboration between anthropology and the life sciences, particularly medicine and social epidemiology, but suggests that qualitative life-history data have an important role to play in the understanding of how people cope with collective stress.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of Figures, Graphs, Maps and Tables
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. Crisis State and Displaced Citizens
Chapter 2. Ambivalent Relations: Moments in the Unmixing of a Village
Chapter 3. Exits South: Improvisation Vignettes
Chapter 4. Economic Recovery: A Retrospective View
Chapter 5. Crisis Management by Political Consensus
Chapter 6. Revisiting Former Homes
Chapter 7. The Referendum 2004: Too Little, and Too Late?
Chapter 8. Hearts as well as Minds: Illness and Well being
Chapter 9. Coping with Severe Life Events
Chapter 10. A Sociology of Argaki Displacement: the Thirty Year View
Chapter 11. In Their Own Words
Chapter 12. Iron in the Soul: On Grievance and Transcendence
Bibliography
Appendix I: Cyprus Historical Highlights
Appendix II: Main Political Groupings and Parties
Appendix III: Presidents of the Republic of Cyprus
Index
