Experiencing Dominion

Experiencing Dominion contributes to ongoing debates on hegemony, power, and identity in contemporary historical and anthropological literature through an examination of the imperial encounter between the British and the Greeks of the Ionian Islands during the nineteenth century. Each chapter focuses on a different aspect of the imperial encounter, with topics including identity construction, the contestation over civil society, gender and the manipulation of public space, hegemony and accommodation, the role of law and of the institutions of criminal justice, and religion and imperial dominion.

Thomas Gallant -- widely recognized as one of the leading scholars in historical anthropology -- argues that a great deal can be learned about colonialism in general through an analysis of the Ionian Islands, precisely because that colonial encounter was so atypical. For example, Gallant demonstrates that because the Ionian Greeks were racially white, Christian, and descendents of Europe's classical forebears, the process of colonial identity formation was more ambigu

Acknowledgments

vii

Preface

ix

Abbreviations

xv

Introduction: The Ionian Islands

1

(14)

European Aborigines and Mediterranean Irish: Identity, Cultural Stereotypes, and Colonial Rule

15

(42)

Creating ``Western Civilization'' on a Greek Island

57

(18)

Indirect Rule and Indigenous Politics: The Case of the Foundling Home on Kefallenia

75

(20)

Turning the Horns: Cultural Metaphors, Material Conditions, and the Peasant Language of Resistance

95

(22)

Dueling with Daggers: Masculine Identity and Ritual Violence

117

(32)

``We're All Whores Here'': Women, Slander, and the Criminal Justice System

149

(26)

``We Are the Christians'': Religion, Identity, and Colonial Rule

175

(36)

The Imperial Encounter on the Ionian Islands: A Summary

211

(4)

Notes

215

(4)

Bibliography

219

(26)

Index

245

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