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050 00 $aDS54.5$b.B82 2010
082 00 $a956.9304$222
100 1 $aBryant, Rebecca$c(Professor of anthropology)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2004085834
245 14 $aThe past in pieces :$bbelonging in the new Cyprus /$cRebecca Bryant.
260 $aPhiladelphia :$bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$c[2010], ©2010.
300 $aix, 207 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aContemporary ethnography
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $gOne.$tPaths of No Return -- $gTwo.$tThe Anxieties of an Opening -- $gThree.$tA Needle and a Handkerchief -- $gFour.$tGeographies of Loss -- $gFive.$tIn the Ruins of Memory -- $gSix.$tThe Spoils of History -- $gSeven.$tThe Pieces of Peace -- $gEight.$tBetrayals of the Past.
520 1 $a""We stood at the town's highest point, looking out over the neighborhoods tumbling down the mountain below us, and Maroulla took me by the arm and pointed out to me that her childhood home was visible off to our right. F̀rom here it looks the same,' she remarked. T̀he same as it used to.' From that height, from that distance, it was possible to forget the new construction, to forget the signs in Turkish, to forget the unfamiliar faces and children in the streets, and to dream oneself into a younger time, a time when all was right and everyone was in her place. I found myself falling into such a reverie, as well, imagining the town thirty, forty, fifty years before. And yet even as I tried to imagine, I found myself spiraling back farther and farther in time, to a time when Maroulla was just a child, even to a point before Maroulla's birth, in order to find a moment about which I would not feel guilty imagining that it was a time of peace."" "On April 23, 2003, to the surprise of much of the world, the ceasefire line that divides Cyprus opened. The line had partitioned the island since 1974, so international media heralded the opening of the checkpoints as a historic event that echoed the fall of the Berlin Wall. As in the moment of the Wall's collapse, cameras captured the rush of Cypriots across the border to visit homes abandoned unwillingly three decades earlier. It was a euphoric moment, and one that led to expectations of reunification. But within a year Greek Cypriots overwhelmingly rejected at referendum a United Nations plan to reunite the island, despite their Turkish compatriots' support for the plan. In the Past in Pieces, anthropologist Rebecca Bryant explores why the momentous event of the opening has not led Cyprus any closer to reunification and, indeed, in many ways has driven the two communities of the island farther apart." "This chronicle of the "new Cyprus" tells the story of the opening through the voices and lives of the people of one town that has experienced conflict. Over the course of two years, Bryant studied a formerly mixed town in northern Cyprus in order to understand both experiences of life together before conflict and the ways in which the dissolution of that shared life is remembered today. Tales of violation and loss return from the past to shape meanings of the opening in daily life, redefining the ways in which Cypriots describe their own senses of belonging and expectations of the political future. By examining how the past is rewritten in the present, Bryant shows that even a momentous opening may lead not to reconciliation but instead to the discovery of new borders that may, in fact, be the real ones"--BOOK JACKET.
651 0 $aCyprus$xHistory.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85035188
651 0 $aCyprus$xEthnic relations.
650 0 $aNationalism$zCyprus.
650 0 $aTurks$zCyprus$xEthnic identity.
650 0 $aGreeks$zCyprus$xEthnic identity.
830 0 $aContemporary ethnography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96121680
852 00 $bglx$hDS54.5$i.B82 2010