Message posted on 01/10/2019
Tradition in the Frame Book
Dear friends,
I am taking the liberty of sending an email about my visual ethnography
Tradition in the Frame: Photography, Power and Imagination in Sfakia, Crete
which just came out, as it may interest members of the list.
I am attaching the cover and synopsis.
Sfakians on the island of Crete are known for their distinctive dress and
appearance, fierce ruggedness, and devotion to traditional ways.
Konstantinos Kalantzis explores how Sfakians live with the burdens and
pleasures of maintaining these expectations of exoticism for themselves,
for their fellow Greeks, and for tourists. Sfakian performance of masculine
tradition has become even more meaningful for Greeks looking to reimagine
their nation’s global standing in the wake of stringent financial
regulation, and for non-Greek tourists yearning for rootedness and escape
from the post-industrial north. Through fine-grained ethnography that pays
special attention to photography, Tradition in the Frame explores the
ambivalence of a society expected to conform to outsiders’ perception of
the traditional even as it strives to enact its own vision of tradition.
From the bodily reenactment of historical photographs to the unpredictable,
emotionally-charged uses of postcards and commercial labels, the book
unpacks the question of power and asymmetry but also uncovers other
political possibilities that are nested in visual culture and experiences
of tradition and the past. Kalantzis explores the crossroads of cultural
performance and social imagination where the frame is both empowerment and
subjection.
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Here’s more info about the book on the publisher’s page:
http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?products_id=809810
Let me know, if anyone wants to have a look at more content.
Warm wishes,
Kostis
--
Research Associate in Citizens of photography: The Camera and the Political
Imagination,
Department of Anthropology, University College London
http://www.konstantinoskalantzis.com/
https://ucl.academia.edu/KonstantinosKalantzis
http://soundcloud.com/konstantinos-kalantzis
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I am taking the liberty of sending an email about my visual ethnography
Tradition in the Frame: Photography, Power and Imagination in Sfakia, Crete
which just came out, as it may interest members of the list.
I am attaching the cover and synopsis.
Sfakians on the island of Crete are known for their distinctive dress and
appearance, fierce ruggedness, and devotion to traditional ways.
Konstantinos Kalantzis explores how Sfakians live with the burdens and
pleasures of maintaining these expectations of exoticism for themselves,
for their fellow Greeks, and for tourists. Sfakian performance of masculine
tradition has become even more meaningful for Greeks looking to reimagine
their nation’s global standing in the wake of stringent financial
regulation, and for non-Greek tourists yearning for rootedness and escape
from the post-industrial north. Through fine-grained ethnography that pays
special attention to photography, Tradition in the Frame explores the
ambivalence of a society expected to conform to outsiders’ perception of
the traditional even as it strives to enact its own vision of tradition.
From the bodily reenactment of historical photographs to the unpredictable,
emotionally-charged uses of postcards and commercial labels, the book
unpacks the question of power and asymmetry but also uncovers other
political possibilities that are nested in visual culture and experiences
of tradition and the past. Kalantzis explores the crossroads of cultural
performance and social imagination where the frame is both empowerment and
subjection.
[image: image.png]
Here’s more info about the book on the publisher’s page:
http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?products_id=809810
Let me know, if anyone wants to have a look at more content.
Warm wishes,
Kostis
--
Research Associate in Citizens of photography: The Camera and the Political
Imagination,
Department of Anthropology, University College London
http://www.konstantinoskalantzis.com/
https://ucl.academia.edu/KonstantinosKalantzis
http://soundcloud.com/konstantinos-kalantzis
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