The Usable Past Greek Metahistories

In this volume, K.S. Brown and Yannis Hamilakis bring together scholars of history, archaeology, and anthropology to explore the located and contextual nature of historical narratives through the lens of twentieth-century Greece.

Figures

vii

Foreword

xi

Acknowledgments

xiii

The Cupboard of the Yesterdays? Critical Perspectives on the Usable Past

1

(22)

K. S. Brown

Yannis Hamilakis

I. Projects: The State in Action

Monumental Visions: The Past in Metaxas' Weltanschauung

23

(16)

Philip Carabott

``Learn History!'' Antiquity, National Narrative, and History in Greek Educational Textbooks

39

(30)

Yannis Hamilakis

The Politics of Currency: Stamps, Coins, Banknotes, and the Circulation of Modern Greek Tradition

69

(18)

Basil C. Gounaris

II. Fractures: Resisting the National Narrative

The Macedonian Question in the 1920s and the Politics of History

87

(18)

Patrick Finney

Recollecting Difference: Archive-Marxists and Old Calendarists in an Exile Community

105

(24)

Margaret E. Kenna

The Ethnoarchaeology of a ``Passive'' Ethnicity: The Arvanites of Central Greece

129

(18)

John Bintliff

III. Conversations: From Past to Present

Dimitris Pikionis and Sedad Eldem: Parallel Reflections of Vernacular and National Architecture

147

(24)

Eleni Bastea

Spaces in Tense: History, Contingency, and Place in a Cretan City

171

(20)

Thomas M. Malaby

Poked by the ``Foreign Finger'' in Greece: Conspiracy Theory or the Hermeneutics of Suspicion?

191

(20)

David Sutton

Afterword

211

(12)

Loring M. Danforth

Index

223

(14)

About the Contributors

237

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