Iron in the Soul
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Iron in the Soul

Displacement, Livelihood and Health in Cyprus

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Iron in the Soul

Displacement, Livelihood and Health in Cyprus

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Title page-Iron in the soul
  2. Contents
  3. List of Figures, Graphs, Maps and Tables
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. CH 1-Crisis state and displaced citizens
  6. CH 2-Ambivalent Relations
  7. CH 3-Exits South
  8. CH 4-Economic Recovery
  9. CH 5-Crisis management by political consensus
  10. CH 6-Revisiting former homes
  11. CH 7-The referendum 2004
  12. CH 8-Hearts as well as minds
  13. CH 9-Coping with severe life events
  14. CH 10-A scociology of Argaki displacement
  15. CH 11-In their own words
  16. CH 12-Iron in the soul
  17. Bibliography
  18. Appendix 1
  19. Appendix 2
  20. Appendix 3
  21. Index