Greek Island Life: Behind the scenes of an anthropologist's fieldwork

Greek Island Life:
Behind the scenes of an anthropologist's fieldwork

Friday 18th October
Time: 17.15
Venue: Room 2, Taylor Institution, Oxford

 

Featuring:
A brief introduction by Sarah Ekdawi
A talk by Professor Margaret Kenna about her fieldwork on a remote Greek island
Questions from the audience
Wine, books and pamphlets

 

"This is the story of an anthropologist whose life has been marked forever by her fieldwork on the tiny, remote Greek island of Anafi in the 1960s. In the course of her work with the political exiles sent to Anafi in the 1940s, Margaret Kenna amassed an impressive photographic archive, and indeed her narrative unfolds like a series of snapshots, snippets of history frozen in time, recording a past that is ‘a foreign country’ even for those who lived through it. Kenna has done an extraordinary job of compiling diary entries, fieldwork notes and census data, and casting a critical (and self-critical) eye on the gender bias that marked some of the anthropological writing of the time". (Myriam Lamrani, Review for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies).