Eleni Papagaroufali
Biographic Data
| ID | 639244 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eleni Papagaroufali |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eleni |
| FAMILY NAME | Papagaroufali |
| SIGNATURE | PAPAGAROUFALI E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Panteion University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Bodies of Knowledge
Of Euro-Symbols and Euro-Sentiments
no abstract
Marrying a ‘Foe’
Addressing the notion of “mixture” in marriages between individuals with diverse ethnic and religious identity as well as ambiguous historical relations, this article investigates the conjugal life and relations of Greek-Turkish couples living in Athens. It explores the meanings such unions take on in modern Greek society where nationalist discourse underlines issues of cultural and biological “purity” and shows how alternative versions of histor…
Playing with One's Own Death While Being Alive
There is plenty of anthropological literature on mortuary rituals through which people relate to dead kin or close off their relations with them. But there are few accounts in any religious or nonreligious contexts of death-oriented rituals that are carried out while the person is still alive and in good health and show how that person wishes to prepare for death. It might be thought that prayers and gifts to God for the sake of one's own good he…
Town Twinning in Greece
Twinning arrangements between members and non‐members of the European Union are one of the many Euro‐symbolic measures taken with the aim of making indigenous populations “feel like citizens of Europe at the local level”. This article addresses the ways in which trans‐local projects of indoctrination, such as twinning, force indigenous peoples to reposition themselves toward what is culturally defined as local history. Its focus is on the exchang…
Donations of Human Organs or Bodies After Death
Several body theorists focus on the precultural materiality of the body as flesh to argue against the discursively constructed, supposedly fleshless or imagined bodies of postmodernity. This article is about body perceptions of 24 people sharing an exceptionally fleshly and seemingly imagined experience: their determination to donate their organs or bodies after their death. Approaching prospective donation as a culturally elaborated, somatic, in…
Town Twinning in Greece
Twinning arrangements between members and non‐members of the European Union are one of the many Euro‐symbolic measures taken with the aim of making indigenous populations “feel like citizens of Europe at the local level”. This article addresses the ways in which trans‐local projects of indoctrination, such as twinning, force indigenous peoples to reposition themselves toward what is culturally defined as local history. Its focus is on the exchang…
Donations of Human Organs or Bodies After Death
Several body theorists focus on the precultural materiality of the body as flesh to argue against the discursively constructed, supposedly fleshless or imagined bodies of postmodernity. This article is about body perceptions of 24 people sharing an exceptionally fleshly and seemingly imagined experience: their determination to donate their organs or bodies after their death. Approaching prospective donation as a culturally elaborated, somatic, in…
Donations of Human Organs or Bodies After Death
Several body theorists focus on the precultural materiality of the body as flesh to argue against the discursively constructed, supposedly fleshless or imagined bodies of postmodernity. This article is about body perceptions of 24 people sharing an exceptionally fleshly and seemingly imagined experience: their determination to donate their organs or bodies after their death. Approaching prospective donation as a culturally elaborated, somatic, in…
Town Twinning in Greece
Twinning arrangements between members and non‐members of the European Union are one of the many Euro‐symbolic measures taken with the aim of making indigenous populations “feel like citizens of Europe at the local level”. This article addresses the ways in which trans‐local projects of indoctrination, such as twinning, force indigenous peoples to reposition themselves toward what is culturally defined as local history. Its focus is on the exchang…
Marrying a ‘Foe’
Addressing the notion of “mixture” in marriages between individuals with diverse ethnic and religious identity as well as ambiguous historical relations, this article investigates the conjugal life and relations of Greek-Turkish couples living in Athens. It explores the meanings such unions take on in modern Greek society where nationalist discourse underlines issues of cultural and biological “purity” and shows how alternative versions of histor…
Playing with One's Own Death While Being Alive
There is plenty of anthropological literature on mortuary rituals through which people relate to dead kin or close off their relations with them. But there are few accounts in any religious or nonreligious contexts of death-oriented rituals that are carried out while the person is still alive and in good health and show how that person wishes to prepare for death. It might be thought that prayers and gifts to God for the sake of one's own good he…
Of Euro-Symbols and Euro-Sentiments
no abstract
Bodies of Knowledge
Psychology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · History (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Biology (2 works) · Crystal twinning (2 works) · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (2 works)