Heirs of the Greek Catastrophe

Renée Hirschon Philippakis is an Emerita Fellow of St Peter’s College. She serves on the Steering Committee of SEESOX at Saint Anthony's College and is a Research Associate of SAME, University of Oxford. After teaching at Oxford Brookes University for many years, she was Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of the Aegean, Mytilene, Lesbos, from 1987-1997.

“This is a timely new edition of a landmark in the scholarship of displacement. Not only an incisive and detailed study of the enduring consequences of forced migration, it highlights the resilience of refugees while never discounting their pain. The lessons of this work remain powerfully relevant today.” • Matthew J. Gibney, Director, Refugee Studies Centre, OxfordReviews for the Second Edition:“… elegantly written and intellectually coherent … a marvellous study.” • Anthropological Quarterly“By stimulating new debates on important theoretical issues, the book makes essential reading for anyone with an interest in Mediterranean Europe.” • JASO“This well-crafted volume provides … indispensable reading for students of ethnicity in general,and modern Greek society in particular.” • International Migration Review

• List of PlatesList of IllustrationsList of TablesPreface to the Third EditionForewordPreface to the Paperback EditionMichael HerzfeldPrefaceAcknowledgementsGlossaryChapter 1. Refugees for Fifty YearsChapter 2. The Ottoman Past in the Refugee PresentChapter 3. Identity and Hardship: The Urban Refugee ExperienceChapter 4. Yerania: Place and SpaceChapter 5. Earning a LivingChapter 6. The House, the Dowry, and Marriage: Continuity and AdaptationChapter 7. The House: Symbolic and Social WorldsChapter 8. Neighbourhood Life: lntegration and AmbiguityChapter 9. Religious Life and Death in YeraniaChapter 10. The Triumph of LifeAfterwordAyhan AktarAppendices I: Conflict in Close Quarters: The Legal TangleII: Results of Household Survey in Yerania, 1972III: Categories of Occupation in Yerania, 1972NotesReferencesIndex