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Notes from the Balkans: Locating Marginality and Ambiguity on the Greek-Albanian Border

Notes from the Balkans: Locating Marginality and Ambiguity on the Greek-Albanian Border

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Series: Princeton Modern Greek Studies, Book 20

AnthropologyGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 0691121990
ISBN13: 9780691121994
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Published: Jul 25 2005
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.04
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.34 Depth: 9.24
Language: English

Maps and borders notwithstanding, some places are best described as gaps--places with repeatedly contested boundaries that are wedged in between other places that have clear boundaries. This book explores an iconic example of this in the contemporary Western imagination: the Balkans. Drawing on richly detailed ethnographic research around the Greek-Albanian border, Sarah Green focuses her groundbreaking analysis on the ambiguities of never quite resolving where or what places are. One consequence for some Greek peoples in this border area is a seeming lack of distinction--but in a distinctly Balkan way. In gaps (which are never empty), marginality is, in contrast with conventional understandings, not a matter of difference and separation--it is a lack thereof.


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