Iron in the Soul Loizos Peter
Iron in the Soul Loizos Peter In his vivid, lively account of how Greek Cypriot villagers coped with a thirty-year displacement, Peter Lo zos follows a group of people whom he encountered as…
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Iron in the Soul Loizos Peter
In his vivid, lively account of how Greek Cypriot villagers coped with a thirty-year displacement, Peter Lo zos follows a group of people whom he encountered as prosperous farmers in 1968, yet found as disoriented refugees when revisiting in 1975. It focuses on reconstruction of livelihoods, conservation of family, community, social capital, health (both physical and mental), religious and political perceptions. By providing a forty year in-depth perspective unusual in the social sciences, this study yields unconventional insights into the deeper meanings of displacement.
The author argues for a closer collaboration between anthropology and the life sciences, particularly medicine and social epidemiology, but suggests that qualitative life-history data have an important role to play in the understanding of how people cope with collective