Sensing the Everyday

C. Nadia Seremetakis is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of the Peloponnese, Greece. She has authored several acclaimed books and articles in English and Greek, including poetry, and has been actively engaged in public anthropology in both Europe and the USA, where she lived and taught for more than two decades.

"This book is an impassioned intervention in a changing European and modern political culture. It re-enchants the everyday, the grass-roots, the familial-feminine, and the concrete in unique and important ways… and proposes a new public anthropology of broad use refocused on the sensorium that emerges from the traumatic in everyday life."Judith Farquhar, University of Chicago, USA"This book is marked by a heterogeneity of micrological ethnographic sites cut across by recurrent themes … This framework generates fascinating insights on cultural heritage as sensory archives in relation to the museumification of Greece, which is in direct communication with its current debt collapse"Allen Feldman, New York University, USA"A major work that will certainly be discussed and become a reference point for many years … This is Seremetakis at her finest."Paul Stoller, West Chester University, USA

• 1. On Board/On Boarder 2. Dialogue/ The Dialogical 3. Theatrocracy and Memory in Austerity Times 4. Modern Cities of Silence: Disasters, Nature, and the Petrified Bodies of History 5. Wounded Borders: The Arrival of the "Barbarians" 6. Eros and Thanatos in Transnational Europe 7. Touch and Taste 8. Border Echoes 9. Divination, Media and the Networked Body of Modernity 10. A Last Word on Dreaming 11. On "Native" Ethnography in Modernity 12. Ethnopoetic Dialogues: Performing Local History 13. Performing Intercultural Translation 14. Events of Deadly Rumor: By Way of an Epilogue