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Informationen zum Autor Robert Shannan Peckham is Director of the Centre for the Humanities and Medicine (CHM) at the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.Explores the conscious link between identity and homeland as this was articulated in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Greece. This book demonstrates how territory was appropriated through a range of social practices and institutional activities, for example, writing fiction and identifying folklore. Zusammenfassung Recent conflicts in southeast Europe have drawn attention to the close relationship between place and national identity. In this book Robert Shannan Peckham explores the conscious link between identity and homeland as this was articulated in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Greece! a period important to the understanding of the present Balkan crisis. He demonstrates how territory was appropriated through a range of social practices and institutional activities: writing fiction! identifying folklore! sponsoring archaeology! studying geography and cartography. The particularities of place! Peckham argues! were construed both as underpinning a territorial expansion and as a resistance to the homogenizing drive of a state-sponsored nationalism. This book makes an innovative theoretical contribution to the debate on nationalism and nationhood and suggests new ways of thinking about geography and cultural politics. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction1. Mapping The Nation: Language, Geography, and the New Ethnography2. Cultural Landscapes and the Formation of the Greek State3. Frontier Fictions4. Folklores of Modernity5. Local Knowledge, National History6. Islands Apart: Rural Fictions7. Life Underground: Archaeology and the Recovery of the Present8. Map ManiaConclusion: Nationalism and the Location of Culture
