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'In Genres of Recollection, Penelope Papailias has given us a genre that productively defines recollection. Her book is an original exploration in the elusive but vital common ground of anthropology and history. Avoiding the abstruse abstractions that so often bedevil considerations of epistemology, Papailias brings to life the everyday social practices involved in the production of history by local writers and collectors and thereby challenges us to examine and compare the social conditions of our own intellectual production. An original and beautifully written contribution to the ethnography of Greece, this work is also an unusual experiment in the broadening of the anthropological vision.' - Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University
'In these stunning chapters on modern Greek history Penelope Papailias bypasses old disciplinary constraints to set forth a new theory and practice of anthropological reading. She finds her alternative archives in the works of amateur historians,the transcripts of Anatolian refugees, the memoir of a migrant to America, and a novel on the Civil War. The result is sustained interrogations and incisive insights concerning both the notion of an 'archive' and the historical phenomenon that is 'Greece.'' - Brinkley Messick, Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University
'The author responds to the famous question, 'What is History?' with the phrase 'Let's see what historians do.' Then, to explore this perspective, she gives the reader an ethnographic tour of historians' social worlds, thoughts and craft. I find this response quite ingenious. It is an original approach to writing about the writing of history.' - Antonis Liakos, Professor of History, University of Athens
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Book Title: Genres of Recollection
Book Subtitle: Archival Poetics and Modern Greece
Authors: Penelope Papailias
Series Title: Anthropology, History and the Critical Imagination
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403981462
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-6105-1Published: 06 January 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-6106-8Published: 06 January 2006
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4039-8146-2Published: 15 March 2005
Series ISSN: 2945-6894
Series E-ISSN: 2945-6908
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 301
Topics: Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography, Social Anthropology, Social History, Cultural History