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Diaspora of the CityCosmopolitan Knowledge: Impressions from Everyday Life in Athens

Diaspora of the City: Cosmopolitan Knowledge: Impressions from Everyday Life in Athens [This chapter is composed of ethnographic stories that take place in Paleo Faliro, the center of the fieldwork in Athens. After noting the general aspects of daily culture of the Rum Polites, the chapter introduces the concept of cosmopolitan knowledge, an extension of the notion of metropolitan knowledge (Rotenberg, R., The Metropolis and Everyday Life. In G. Gmelch & W. P. Zenner (Eds.), Urban Life: Readings in the Anthropology of the City (pp. 60–81). Waveland Press, 2002), with a nuanced specification: their practice of everyday life (de Certeau, M., The Practice of Everyday Life. University of California Press, 1988) takes as its reference not the present city, but another city of their non-being but yet belonging, one that is far away in space and in time. It is this connection to an Istanbul past that brings the Rum Polites together in Athens, while it delineates them from the Greeks of Greece. By juxtaposing stories, personal narratives, impressions, everyday observations, and narratives, I stress that cultural life is too complex to be taken as a totality, and too variable to be treated as coherent.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Diaspora of the CityCosmopolitan Knowledge: Impressions from Everyday Life in Athens

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
ISBN
978-1-137-55485-7
Pages
41 –66
DOI
10.1057/978-1-137-55486-4_2
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Abstract

[This chapter is composed of ethnographic stories that take place in Paleo Faliro, the center of the fieldwork in Athens. After noting the general aspects of daily culture of the Rum Polites, the chapter introduces the concept of cosmopolitan knowledge, an extension of the notion of metropolitan knowledge (Rotenberg, R., The Metropolis and Everyday Life. In G. Gmelch & W. P. Zenner (Eds.), Urban Life: Readings in the Anthropology of the City (pp. 60–81). Waveland Press, 2002), with a nuanced specification: their practice of everyday life (de Certeau, M., The Practice of Everyday Life. University of California Press, 1988) takes as its reference not the present city, but another city of their non-being but yet belonging, one that is far away in space and in time. It is this connection to an Istanbul past that brings the Rum Polites together in Athens, while it delineates them from the Greeks of Greece. By juxtaposing stories, personal narratives, impressions, everyday observations, and narratives, I stress that cultural life is too complex to be taken as a totality, and too variable to be treated as coherent.]

Published: Nov 12, 2017

Keywords: Cosmopolitan Knowledge; Istanbul; Ethnographic Stories; Patisserie; Baklava

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