{"product_id":"notes-from-the-balkans-9780691121994","title":"Notes from the Balkans","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMaps 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 example of this in the contemporary Western imagination: the Balkans.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the 2006 William A. Douglass Award, American Anthropological Association Winner of the 2007 Honor Book Award, New Jersey Council for the Humanities \"Notes from the Balkans is a penetrating and richly textured account of marginality in the Epirus area of north-western Greece... Sarah Green's text... provides a subtle and persuasive tool for thinking about the contextual specificity of social identities ... that will be pertinent far beyond the Balkans.\"--Madeleine Reeves, Cambridge Anthropology \"Sarah Green's wide-ranging discussion of 'Balkan' history, emphasizing circuits of movement, is engaging and enlightening. The book's theoretical discussions are dense ... but not turgid; Green has a light, direct, and unpretentious style of writing. Notes from the Balkans gives readers a visceral sense of the 'ordinary' and, I think, a better idea about marginality. It is a delightful book to read.\"--Laurie Kain Hart, American Ethnologist \"The book's principal contributions are twofold: First, it adds magnificent new ethnographic information about an area that has not been systematically studied by a foreign anthropologist since the pioneering work of John Campbell. Second, it applies a brilliant theoretical discussion of marginality, identity, and ambiguity to a setting in which concepts and categories, or affiliations and labels, have been under constant change. This is a well-researched, masterfully written, and theoretically sophisticated study that is unique in both conception and analysis... This is a quality study that should reach out to a wider audience of area specialists, not only to anthropologists.\"--Anastasia Karakasidou, American Anthropologist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Maps and Figures ix  List of Tables xi  Acknowledgments xiii  Notes on Transliteration, Translation, and Pseudonyms xvii  CHAPTER 1: Marginal Margins 1  CHAPTER 2: Travels 40  CHAPTER 3: Moving Mountains 89  CHAPTER 4: The Balkan Fractal 128  CHAPTER 5: Counting 159  CHAPTER 6: Embodied Recounting 176  CHAPTER 7: Developments 218  APPENDIX: Tables 249  Notes 261  Bibliography 279  Index 297","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037263855959,"sku":"9780691121994","price":36.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691121994.jpg?v=1750935048","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/notes-from-the-balkans-9780691121994","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}