Myth, Representation, and Identity

An Ethnography of Memory in Lipsi, Greece

• Author(s): M. Papachristophorou,
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 198
• ISBN_10: 1137362758
  ISBN_13: 9781137362759
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Social Science / Sociology of Religion , Social Science / Anthropology / General , Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social , Social Science / Sociology / General , History / Europe / General , Religion / General ,

Description:... Lipsi forms a modern construction that has disconnected from its past. Recently, the community has formed a collective identity reconstructed from fragments of collective memory. This book is an ethnographic account of the mythology proposed by the community and examines how history and collective memory tightly interconnect.