کوچ‌نشینان میکونوس: اجرای مرزها در یک فضای 'کوئیر' (جهت‌گیری‌های جدید در انسان‌شناسی، 29)

This is the ethnography of the Mykoniots d’élection , a ‘gang’ of romantic adventurers who have been visiting the island of Mykonos for the last thirty-five years and have formed a community of dispersed friends. Their constant return to and insistence on working, acting and creating in a tourist space, offers them an extreme identity, which in turn is aesthetically marked by the transient cultural properties of Mykonos. Drawing semiotically from its ancient counterpart Delos, whose myth of emergence entails a spatial restlessness, contemporary Mykonos also acquires an idiosyncratic fluidity. In mythology Delos, the island of Apollo, was condemned by the gods to be an island in constant movement. Mykonos, as a signifier of a new form of ontological nomadism, semiotically shares such assumptions. The Nomads of Mykonos keep returning to a series of alternative affective groups largely in order to heal a split: between their desire for autonomy, rebellion and aloneness and their need to affectively belong to a collectivity. Mykonos for the Mykoniots d’élection is their permanent ‘stopover’; their regular comings and goings discursively project onto Mykonos’ space an allegorical (discordant) notion of ‘home’. "This is the ethnography of the Mykoniots d'election, a 'gang' of romantic adventurers who have been visiting the island of Mykonos for the last thirty-five years and have formed a community of dispersed friends. Their constant return to and insistence on working, acting and creating in a tourist space, offers them an extreme identity, which in turn is aesthetically marked by the transient cultural properties of Mykonos. Drawing semiotically from its ancient counterpart Delos, whose myth of emergence entails a spacial restlessness, contemporary Mykonos also acquires an idiosyncratic fluidity. In mythology Delos, the island of Apollo, was condemned by the gods to be an island in constant movement. Mykonos, as a signifier of a new form of ontological nomadism, semiotically shares such assumptions. The Nomads of Mykonos keep returning to a series of alternative affective groups largely in order to heal a split: between their desire for autonomy, rebellion and aloneness and their need to affectively belong to a collectivity. Mykonos for the Mykoniots d'election is their permanent 'stopover'; their regular comings and goings discursively project onto Mykonos' space an allegorical (discordant) notion of 'home'."--BOOK JACKET Frontmatter Acknowledgements (page vii) Note on transliteration (page x) Introduction (page xi) 1. Mykonos: the building of a liminal space-myth (page 1) 2. Narratives of belonging: the myth of an 'indigenous' otherness (page 35) 3. Narratives of the self: an eccentric myth of otherness (page 65) 4. Narratives of place: a spatial myth of otherness (page 139) 5. Narratives of difference: an aesthetic myth of otherness (page 175) Conclusion (page 215) Epilogue. A beach farewell (page 231) Appendix I. The problem of agency in the Greek ethnographic subject (page 249) Appendix II. The emergence of the sensual post-tourist: consuming 'cultures', multisubjective selves and (trans)local spaces (page 263) Glossary (page 271) Bibliography (page 277) Index (page 293)