‘Disciplining’ the Neohellenic Character: Records of Anglo- Greek Encounters and the Development of Ethnological Historical Discourse  

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Tzanelli, Rodanthi

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: History of the Human Sciences vol. 16 no. 3 (Aug. 2003), page 21–50.
Topik: anthropology; Britain; ethnography; Greece; history; intimacy; travel accounts
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The article examines the development of anthropological discourse in British travel accounts of modern Greece, and the Greek response. The study has several aims. First, it argues that in British travel accounts ethnographic remarks are encountered which point to a genealogy of the British discipline of anthropology. These remarks on the modern Greek character formulated problématiques in which history and ethnography, as well as Romanticism and Enlightenment ideas, merged. Second, the article examines Greek peasant reaction to British observation and ‘intrusion’, as a rational product of the Anglo-Greek exchange. Third, it maintains that such peasant responses, which are in accordance with counter-hegemonic, Neohellenic ‘high-brow’ attitudes, were not the product of the latter, but their genealogical counterpart. From this it follows that in British encounters with Greek peasants, historians can trace the development of Greek folklore as a nationalist product which defied European hegemonic narratives of modern Greek identity.

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