Archaeological etymologies: monumentality and domesticity in twentieth-century Greece

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Archaeological etymologies: monumentality and domesticity in twentieth-century Greece

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Symbiotic modeling: Linguistic Anthropology and the promise of chiasmus

Reflexive observations and observations of reflexivity: such agendas are by now standard practice in anthropology. Dynamic feedback loops between self and other, cause and effect, represented and representamen may no longer seem surprising; but, in spite of our enhanced awareness, little deliberate attention is devoted to modeling or grounding such phenomena. Attending to both linguistic and extra-linguistic modalities of chiasmus (the X figure), a group of anthropologists has recently embraced this challenge. Applied to contemporary problems in linguistic anthropology, chiasmus functions to highlight and enhance relationships of interdependence or symbiosis between contraries, including anthropology’s four fields, the nature of human being and facets of being human

Les enjeux du sang : la production officielle des stéréotypes dans les Balkans. Le cas de la Grèce

Les enjeux du sang : la production officielle des stéréotypes dans les Balkans Le cas de la GrèceCet article s'intéresse aux enjeux du sang et à leur symbolique dans la construction de l'identité ethnique et nationale en Grèce. Le phénomène nationaliste n'est pas réductible à la « mentalité » qui, comme le sang, est une cosmologie idéologique et rhétorique constitutive de la discursivité nationaliste et de sa transmission. La logique de la segmentante sous-jacente à ces enjeux du sang est elle-même consubstantielle, fût-elle déguisée, au discours étatique. Cette logique nationaliste induit chez des groupes minoritaires une « conscience ethnique » essentialisée, mimétique, de celle des majoritaires qui en refusent cependant l'existence et la légitimité. La métaphore du sang pourrait donc raviver des tendances inquiétantes déjà à l'œuvre dans les Balkans.Blood Stakes : The Official Production of Stereotypes in the Balkans The Case of GreeceThis article addresses the play of symbolism in national and ethnie identity in Greece. " Mentality " is not a useful concept for clarifying the phenomenon we call " nationalism ". for it is itself an intégral part of the ideological and rhetorical panoply of that phenomenon. In that sense it operates at the same level as blood, a powerful symbol endowed with agnatic authority and considered to play a major role in the transmission of collective character (which includes " mentality "). and one whose segmentary logic, thinly disguised, is reproduced in state rhetoric. This underlying logic of nationalist practice provokes minority populations to form an essentialist "ethnie consciousness", modeled on that of the majority group, which nevertheless denies them the reciprocal recognition of their legitimacy or even of their existence. The blood metaphor could thus be used to revive some especially disturbing tendencies with respect to the current situation in the Balkans

The Crypto-Colonial Dilemmas of Rattanakosin Island

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