Blood and Oranges

Christopher Lawrence spent 13 months living and working in a group of three Greek villages while carrying out the research for this book. He currently lives in New York City and teaches at The City University of New York and the New York City Department of Education.

"This is a book well worth reading... [it] offers a comprehensive background to the studied society and the complex social relationships at all levels that dominate this rural Greek microcosm. This is an excellent book, of interest to those studying globalization and the integration of markets but also those interested on contemporary Greek society and its entanglements."  ·  Labour History Review“Lawrence's ethnography is a valuable and intriguing contribution not only to the ethnography of Greece but to the anthropology of globalization and politics. The detailed and multi level analysis of social, political and economic transformations is both critical and well placed…[It] reminds anthropology of the necessity of a critical, detailed and encompassing political analysis of the interactions and articulations between the contradictory processes, discourses and practices between people and socio-economic systems, between people and the formations and transformations of power.”  ·  Durham Anthropology Journal“Each chapter of Blood and Oranges is densely packed with argumentation that weaves together existing literature with the political economic facts on the ground. The treatment is a learned one, rich and erudite in its treatment of the circum¬stances in Argolida, and always embedding those circum¬stances within a broader set of forces and connections.”   ·  American Ethnologist

• List of IllustrationsList of AbbreviationsAcknowledgmentsPrefaceIntroduction: The Transformation of Rural GreeceChapter 1. A Brief History of Conflict and Accommodation in ArgolidaChapter 2. Agricultural Production and Household EconomiesChapter 3. Immigrant Labor in the VillagesChapter 4. The Social Transformation of the CountrysideChapter 5. The State, Citizenship, and Identity in ArgolidaChapter 6. The Politics of ResistanceChapter 7. Nationalism in a Globalizing EconomyBibliographyIndex