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Iron in the Soul: Displacement, Livelihood and Health in Cyprus

Iron in the Soul: Displacement, Livelihood and Health in Cyprus

Loizos, Peter

Hardcover

Series: Forced Migration, Book 23

AnthropologyImmigration & Refugees

ISBN10: 1845454448
ISBN13: 9781845454449
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: Jun 1 2008
Pages: 224
Weight: 1.04
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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.

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