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Tradition in the Frame: Photography, Power, and Imagination in Sfakia, Crete - Couverture rigide

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Kalantzis, Konstantinos

 
9780253037121: Tradition in the Frame: Photography, Power, and Imagination in Sfakia, Crete
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0253037123 ISBN 13 : 9780253037121
Editeur : Indiana University Press, 2019

Synopsis

Sfakians on the island of Crete are known for their distinctive dress and appearance, fierce ruggedness, and devotion to traditional ways. Konstantinos Kalantzis explores how Sfakians live with the burdens and pleasures of maintaining these expectations of exoticism for themselves, for their fellow Greeks, and for tourists. Sfakian performance of masculine tradition has become even more meaningful for Greeks looking to reimagine their nation's global standing in the wake of stringent financial regulation, and for non-Greek tourists yearning for rootedness and escape from the post-industrial north. Through fine-grained ethnography that pays special attention to photography, Tradition in the Frame explores the ambivalence of a society expected to conform to outsiders' perception of the traditional even as it strives to enact its own vision of tradition. From the bodily reenactment of historical photographs to the unpredictable, emotionally-charged uses of postcards and commercial labels, the book unpacks the question of power and asymmetry but also uncovers other political possibilities that are nested in visual culture and experiences of tradition and the past. Kalantzis explores the crossroads of cultural performance and social imagination where the frame is both empowerment and subjection.

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À propos de l'auteur

Konstantinos Kalantzis is Research Associate in PhotoDemos, Department of Anthropology, University College London. He is director of the ethnographic film Dowsing the Past: Materialities of Civil War Memories.

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Éditeur
Indiana University Press
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0253037123
ISBN 13 
9780253037121
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
334
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Personne responsable
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