In a Different Place
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Adultery
Alterity
Ambiguity
Another Woman
Anthropologist
Anti-clericalism
Antiscience
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Blasphemy
Boredom
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Counter-Reformation
Creation myth
Criticism
Critique
Cultural bias
Deconstruction
Dichotomy
Disadvantage
Distrust
Embarrassment
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Ethnography
Evocation
Falsity
Frustration
God
Great Disappointment
Grief
Hostility
Icon
Iconoclasm
Iconodule
In This World
Infidel
Irrationality
Irredentism
Irreligion
Liminality
Loneliness
Martyr
Mourning
Myth and ritual
Narrative
Neglect
Nepotism
Oppression
Orientalism
Pain
Parody
Persecution
Pity
Postmodernism
Procession
Pseudonym
Refugee
Relic
Religion
Reprisal
Ridicule
Ruins
Shame
Skepticism
Subversion
Supplication
The Other Hand
The Various
Tinos
Tragedy
Vulnerability
Warfare
Writing
Product details
- ISBN 9780691029672
- Weight: 482g
- Dimensions: 197 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 21 May 1995
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In a Different Place offers a richly textured account of a modern pilgrimage, combining ethnographic detail, theory, and personal reflection. Visited by thousands of pilgrims yearly, the Church of the Madonna of the Annunciation on the Aegean island of Tinos is a site where different interests--sacred and secular, local and national, personal and official--all come together. Exploring the shrine and its surrounding town, Jill Dubisch shares her insights into the intersection of social, religious, and political life in Greece. Along the way she develops the idea of pilgrimage-journeying away from home in search of the miraculous--as a metaphor for anthropological fieldwork. This highly readable work offers us the opportunity to share one anthropologist's personal and professional journey and to see in a "different place" the inadequacy of such conventional anthropological categories as theory versus data, rationality versus emotion, and the observer versus the observed.
Dubisch examines in detail the process of pilgrimage itself, its relationship to Orthodox belief and practice, the motivations and behavior of pilgrims, the relationship between religion and Greek national identity, and the gendered nature of religious roles. Seeking to evoke rather than simply describe, her book presents readers with a sense of the emotion, color, and power of pilgrimage at this Greek island shrine.
Jill Dubisch is Professor of Anthropology at Northern Arizona State University. She is the editor of Gender and Power in Rural Greece (Princeton).
